Jack Mcdevitt

Secrecy is a compulsive reflex in this country. It strangles thought, delays scientific progress, and destroys integrity.

One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?

The man was either foolish or fearless. Assuming there was a difference.

“I can’t imagine,” said Dupre, “a better way to unnerve people than to tell them there’s no cause for alarm.”

“I suspect we would be wise,” he said without looking up, “to avoid declaring what God will or will not allow.”

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

Her experience had taught her that people who insisted on having others recognize their outstanding qualities usually didn’t have any.

Embrace your life, find what it is that you love, and pursue it with all your soul. For if you do not, when you come to die, you will find that you have not lived.

Politicians always seemed to be willing to sacrifice the general welfare to win votes.

We’re talking about something we all want very much to find. And that automatically makes Ed’s conclusions suspect.

Ah, Lord, if I doubt You, it is perhaps because You hide Yourself so well.