# Quote — Jack Mcdevitt, The Engines Of God

> The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.

- Author: [Jack Mcdevitt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt.md)
- Book: [The Engines Of God](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/the-engines-of-god.md)
- Page: 107
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_McDevitt#The_Engines_of_God_(1994)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/the-engines-of-god/the-cultures-we-can

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> The problem is that too often the only people who can act don’t want change. Power doesn’t so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

p. 356 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/the-engines-of-god/the-problem-is-that.md)

> How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?

p. 81 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/the-engines-of-god/how-does-it-happen.md)

> He objected on principle to the powerful.

p. 213 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/the-engines-of-god/he-objected-on-principle.md)