Quotes By Author: Jack McDevitt

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

“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.”

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