Jack McDevitt Quotes
- The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong. That's…
- It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.
- Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.
- Man has always seen himself the peak of creation. The part of the universe that thinks. The purpose for it all. It's no doubt a…
- How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?
- Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals.
- We could never know who we truly were until we heard the whispers of the stars.
- Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as they…
- Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually we don't like it very much.
- I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better…
- Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.
- One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil…