Jack McDevitt

“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 all. Not that it is. Just that it might be. I don't know why it is, but we tend to fall in love with things we believe, Threaten them, and you threaten us.”

“Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually we don't like it very much.”

“Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea. To add to the mystery, the domain of our earthly existence is not only an island in infinite space, but also in infinite time. The past and the future are alike shrouded from us: we neither know the origin of anything which is, nor its final destination.”

“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.”

“Squeej? What kind of name was that for a pilot?”

“We range the day And mount the sun. We soar past the rim of the world, And know not caution nor fear. But too soon the night comes. –Sigma Hotel”

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

“We could never know who we truly were until we heard the whispers of the stars.”

“We live along the shores of night,At the edge of the eternal sea.”