Quotes by Jack McDevitt

Jack McDevitt

Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.

Doe

Lines

Mind

But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don’t have to wait for anybody.

Needs

Thinking

Waiting

Certain types of decisions can be safely ignored. Some issues will go away with the passage of time, others will be so slow developing that the decision-makers will depart before the results of their neglect becomes manifest. Which brings us to the environment.

Decision

Going Away

Issues

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.

Hands

Men

Stupidity

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

Decision

Information

Made

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

Assuming

Individual

Intelligent

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

Faces

Quality

Sometimes

I’m prepared to concede that stupidity does not help survival. One must after all understand not to poke a tiger with a stick. But intelligence leads to curiosity, and curiosity has never been a quality that helps one pour his or her genes into the pool. The truth must lie somewhere between. Whatever the reason, it is clearly mediocrity, at best, that lives and breeds.

Lying

Stupidity

Survival

If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.

Children

Creative

Successful

If you’re right, and nobody really cares what’s out there, I wonder whether we’re even worth saving.

Care

Saving

Wonder

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Fall

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Fog

Forever

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Going Away

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Ideas

Individual

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Integrity

Intelligent

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Made

May

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Mind

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Quotes by Jack McDevitt

Jack McDevitt

Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.

But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don’t have to wait for anybody.

Certain types of decisions can be safely ignored. Some issues will go away with the passage of time, others will be so slow developing that the decision-makers will depart before the results of their neglect becomes manifest. Which brings us to the environment.

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.

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

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

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

If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.

If you’re right, and nobody really cares what’s out there, I wonder whether we’re even worth saving.

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