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Jack McDevitt Quote: “There is nothing that overwhelms the senses quite like an unwelcome silence.”

51. “There is nothing that overwhelms the senses quite like an unwelcome silence.”

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Jack McDevitt Quote: “And, in a way, we’re all time travelers. Somehow, the entire temporal stream exists, but we’re only conscious of a single moment.”

52. “And, in a way, we’re all time travelers. Somehow, the entire temporal stream exists, but we’re only conscious of a single moment.”

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Jack McDevitt Quote: “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.”

53. “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.”

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Jack McDevitt Quote: “Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.”

54. “Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.”

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Jack McDevitt Quote: “The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.”

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

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Jack McDevitt Quote: “Unfortunately,” he said, “we have short memories. Most heroes are forgotten by the next news cycle.”

56. “Unfortunately,” he said, “we have short memories. Most heroes are forgotten by the next news cycle.”

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Jack McDevitt Quote: “Don’t assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals.”

57. “Don’t assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals.”

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Jack McDevitt Quote: “It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.”

58. “It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.”

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Jack McDevitt Quote: “If you’re paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn’t sufficiently occupied.”

59. “If you’re paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn’t sufficiently occupied.”

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Jack McDevitt Quote: “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.”

60. “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.”

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Jack McDevitt Quote: “Science is an investigation into reality, how atoms interact and biological systems develop and stars give heat. Myth is also an investigation into reality, but into a reality of a different type: It informs us of the deepest desires and fears of the subconscious mind. The place where we really live.”

61. “Science is an investigation into reality, how atoms interact and biological systems develop and stars give heat. Myth is also an investigation into reality, but into a reality of a different type: It informs us of the deepest desires and fears of the subconscious mind. The place where we really live.”

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Jack McDevitt Quote: “The most common cause of plans going wrong and operations collapsing can usually be traced to a communication breakdown. The secret to management success, in peace or war, is to explain strategy in clear terms, and to listen. Acquire those two skills, and fate will be kind.”

62. “The most common cause of plans going wrong and operations collapsing can usually be traced to a communication breakdown. The secret to management success, in peace or war, is to explain strategy in clear terms, and to listen. Acquire those two skills, and fate will be kind.”

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Jack McDevitt Quote: “Contemporaries only know the authority figures and the loudmouths. And the people born into power. But it takes perspective to know who’s carrying the load. Nobody here has a clue who Johannes Kepler is. All they know about Galileo is that he’s a teacher who got in trouble with the Inquisition. I doubt anyone’s heard of Francis Bacon. Even in Britain, nobody really knows him. He’s just a guy with a funny name.”

63. “Contemporaries only know the authority figures and the loudmouths. And the people born into power. But it takes perspective to know who’s carrying the load. Nobody here has a clue who Johannes Kepler is. All they know about Galileo is that he’s a teacher who got in trouble with the Inquisition. I doubt anyone’s heard of Francis Bacon. Even in Britain, nobody really knows him. He’s just a guy with a funny name.”

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Jack McDevitt Quote: “I am persuaded that your people are foolish beyond any reasonable expectation. Not all of them. Obviously, there are many who are reasonable. Otherwise, you could never have reached this world. But the intelligence seems to be confined to a relatively few individuals. When your people come together as a group, they do not perform well.”

64. “I am persuaded that your people are foolish beyond any reasonable expectation. Not all of them. Obviously, there are many who are reasonable. Otherwise, you could never have reached this world. But the intelligence seems to be confined to a relatively few individuals. When your people come together as a group, they do not perform well.”

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Jack McDevitt Quote: “The truth is that we’ve always been greedy and stupid. We have no imagination, and the only reason we’ve survived this long is that we produce just enough smart people to keep us going.”

65. “The truth is that we’ve always been greedy and stupid. We have no imagination, and the only reason we’ve survived this long is that we produce just enough smart people to keep us going.”

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Jack McDevitt Quote: “The assumption had always been that if people are well fed, feel secure, and have decent homes, everything will be fine. But they needed something else as well. Call it self-respect or a sense of purpose. Whatever, it was missing now. Maybe spreading out through the galaxy would provide it, maybe not. But she was convinced that if the human race simply settled onto its collective front porch, as it seemed to be doing, it had no future.”

66. “The assumption had always been that if people are well fed, feel secure, and have decent homes, everything will be fine. But they needed something else as well. Call it self-respect or a sense of purpose. Whatever, it was missing now. Maybe spreading out through the galaxy would provide it, maybe not. But she was convinced that if the human race simply settled onto its collective front porch, as it seemed to be doing, it had no future.”

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Jack McDevitt Quote: “What’s the point of a god who never intervenes?”

67. “What’s the point of a god who never intervenes?”

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Jack McDevitt Quote: “I was thinking how much trouble people get into because they can’t keep their mouths shut.”

68. “I was thinking how much trouble people get into because they can’t keep their mouths shut.”

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