Jack McDevitt
Jack McDevitt
Jack McDevitt is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology. His two main series are the Alex Benedict series and the Priscilla Hutchins series...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
saving care wonder
If you're right, and nobody really cares what's out there, I wonder whether we're even worth saving.
teacher numbers nurse
There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue power. Among this limited group of humanitarians I would number teachers, nurses, bookstore owners, and bartenders.
blue perspective forever
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.
mind attention rudy
If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.
watches television said
Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves. "We watch television," Dave said.
winning technology race
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 maybe technology always wins.
omnipotence deities culture
Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it?
stars heard knows
We could never know who we truly were until we heard the whispers of the stars.
sorry integrity character
Throughout our long and sorry history it has been men who supposed themselves to be exemplars of integrity who have done all the damage. Every crusade, whether for decent literary standards or to cover women's bodies or to free the holy land, had been launched, endorsed, and enthusiastically perpetrated by men of character.
unity culture looks
The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.
intelligent assuming individual
Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals.
doe type happens
How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?
weapons idiot
It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.
beach doe news
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 found it. On those few occasions when major change does occur, it is rarely a good news.