Altered Quote by Jack McDevitt

“See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.”

Jack McDevitt

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings)

Altered Blue Borders Evidence Forever Green Humans Looks Orbit Perspective Planets Profit Way Wells World

More by Jack McDevitt

The queen of virtues is the recognition of one's own flaws.

Jack McDevitt

Image

Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as…

Jack McDevitt

Image

Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.

Jack McDevitt

Image

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.…

Jack McDevitt

Image

Lies hold civilization together. If people ever seriously begin telling each other what they really think, there'd be no peace. Good-bye to tact. Good-bye…

Jack McDevitt

Image

Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.

Jack McDevitt

Image

“...those whose tastes run to personal power [can] never be trusted to act save in the pursuit of their own ambition.”

Jack McDevitt

Image

Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it.

Jack McDevitt

Image

Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it?

Jack McDevitt

Image

Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And…

Jack McDevitt

Image

My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers…

Jack McDevitt

Image

Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety…

Jack McDevitt

Image

Explore all 81 Jack McDevitt quotes

More Altered quotes

Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine…

Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Image

Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward…

Warren Farrell

Image

A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple,…

Charles Edison

Image

Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.

Ovid

Image

The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes…

Michael Merzenich

Image

[New York] is a city largely based on great skyscrapers, and they will always be the essence of New York. That won't change, just…

Donald Trump

Image

Cumulatively, American society is sliding toward a new form of 'authoritarian democracy'. Elections continue, free speech is generally protected, institutions operate in accordance with…

Richard A. Falk

Image

Thousands of years of ideological, philosophical and practical decisions were made. They altered the surface of the earth, the coordinates of our souls. For…

Arundhati Roy

Image

The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation.

Peter Yarrow

Image

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

Anonymous