Jack McDevitt Quotes

• 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.

  Jack McDevitt

  Falling In Love, Real, Believe

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• ... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.

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  People, Needs, Truth Is

  Jack McDevitt (2007). “Cauldron”, p.70, Penguin

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• It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.

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  Views, May, Problem

  "Odyssey". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.

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• La fe tiene su precio. Cuando la desgracia golpea al verdadero creyente, supone que ha hecho algo para merecer el castigo, pero no sabe muy bien qué. El realista, reconociendo que vive en un universo darwiniano, simplemente agradece haber llegado a otro ocaso.

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  Grateful, Sunset, Punishment

  "Deepsix". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2000.

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• Life is a walk in the fog. Most people don't know that. They're fooled by the sunlight into thinking they can see what's ahead. But it's the reason they are forever getting lost or falling into ditches or committing matrimony.

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  Fall, Thinking, Fog

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

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  Omnipotence, Culture, Deities

  Jack McDevitt (1995). “The Engines of God”, p.100, Penguin

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• Man has always seen himself the peak of creation. The part of the universe that thinks. The purpose for it all. It's no doubt a gratifying view, but the universe may have a different opinion.

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  Hombres, Pensamiento, Opiniones

  Jack McDevitt (2005). “Seeker”, p.134, Penguin

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• Los idiotas no son responsables de lo que hacen. La verdadera culpa recae en las personas racionales que se cruzan de brazos mientras los imbéciles campan a sus anchas. Puedes no participar si quieres. Ve a lo seguro. Pero si lo haces, no te quejes cuando se caiga el techo.

  Jack McDevitt

  Running, Real, Fall

  "Odyssey" (Ch. 6, p. 48). Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.

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• Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won't need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.

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  Running, School, Opportunity

  "Odyssey". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.

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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.

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  People, Want, Problem

  Jack McDevitt (1995). “The Engines of God”, p.317, Penguin

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• People who wear their religion on their sleeves talk a lot about going to Sunday school, reading the Bible, and doing good works. And I suppose there's no harm in that. But if I'd gone to the trouble to pull all this together ... and people never paid any attention to it, never bothered to try to find out how the world worked, then I think I'd get annoyed.

  Jack McDevitt

  Reading, School, Sunday

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• Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as a virtue.

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  Quality, Faces, Sometimes

  "Odyssey". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.

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• The term congressional hearing is an oxymoron. No congressional hearing is ever called to gather information. Rather, it is an exercise designed strictly for posturing, by people who have already made up their minds, looking for ammunition to support their positions.

  Jack McDevitt

  Exercise, People, Support

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• 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.

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  Teacher, Numbers, Nurse

  Jack McDevitt (2013). “Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals.

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  Intelligent, Assuming, Individual

  "Infinity Beach". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2000.

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• Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

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  Decision, Information, Made

  "Odyssey". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.

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

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  Doe, Type, Happens

  Jack McDevitt (1995). “The Engines of God”, p.77, Penguin

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• Hablar con la mayoría de la gente suele implicar una búsqueda de la verdad. Hablar con congresistas es estrictamente efectos especiales.

  Jack McDevitt

  Talking, People, Special

  "Odyssey". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.

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• La mentira mantiene unida a la civilización. Si la gente empezara en serio a decirse lo que realmente piensa, no habría paz. Adiós al tacto. Adiós a la cortesía. Adiós a la tolerancia ante las bufonadas ajenas. El hecho de que afirmemos admirar la Verdad es probablemente la mayor mentira de todas. Pero eso forma parte de la farsa, de lo que nos hace humanos, y ni siquiera pensamos en ello. En efecto, nos mentimos a nosotros mismos. Las mentiras sólo son despreciables cuando traicionan una confianza.

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  Lying, Thinking, Civilization

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• Courage is perhaps our most admirable trait. The man, or woman, who possesses it is able to plunge ahead, despite dangers, despite warnings, despite hazards of all kinds, to attack the task at hand. Often, it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

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  Men, Hands, Stupidity

  Jack McDevitt (2013). “Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -”, p.251, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Beach, Doe, News

  "Deepsix". Book by Jack McDevitt, September 2000.

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• There'd been studies over the years supporting the proposition that groups composed exclusively of women usually made intelligent decisions, that exclusively male groups did a bit less well, and that mixed groups did most poorly of all, by a substantial margin. It appeared that, when women were present, testosterone got the upper hand and men took greater risks than they might otherwise. Correspondingly, women in the mixed group tended to revert to roles, becoming more passive, and going along with whatever misjudgment the males might perpetrate.

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  Inteligente, Hombres, Manos

  Jack McDevitt (2003). “Chindi”, p.463, Penguin

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• Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend.

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  Integrity, Loss, Cost

  "Odyssey". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.

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• So long as men and women are free, no one is safe. People will be in danger because others can't operate vehicles responsibly or shoot straight. Because physicians are sometimes incompetent and lawyers dishonest. But most of all they will be in danger from ideas. It is the price we willingly pay to be free. Nor would we have it any other way.

  Jack McDevitt

  Hombres, Ideas, Largo

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• There's not much to be said for sightseeing. You go somewhere that has a waterfall. You have a beer, watch the water go over the edge, and move on. Tours are all the same. In the end, the only thing that matters is the beer.

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  Moving, Beer, Water

  Jack McDevitt (2013). “Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -”, p.172, Hachette UK

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