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 p…

- Jack Mcdevitt

The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.

- Jack Mcdevitt

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 a…

- Jack Mcdevitt

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 t…

- Jack Mcdevitt

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

- Jack Mcdevitt

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.

- Jack Mcdevitt

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…

- Jack Mcdevitt

Idiots are not responsible for what they do. The real guilt falls on rational people who sit on their hands while morons run wild. You can opt out if…

- Jack Mcdevitt

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 …

- Jack Mcdevitt