The Engines of God Quotes

“Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.”
― Jack McDevitt, The Engines of God

“She wondered whether the world's problems might be solved by access to the stars. Or simply exported.”
― jack mcdevitt, The Engines of God

“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, The Engines of God

“Carson recordó la vieja historia del siglo XX del cosmonauta que se quedó desamparado en el espacio cuando la Unión Soviética se disolvió: se encontraba dando vueltas a la Tierra cuando, de repente, el país que lo había llevado hasta allá arriba dejó de existir.”
― Jack McDevitt, Las máquinas de Dios

“Much like those paleontologists who could assemble a complete brontosaur from a knee bone, Henry seemed able to construct an entire society from an um.”
― Jack McDevitt, The Engines of God

“If they ask for me,
Say, she rides where comets go,
And outpaces light.”
― Jack McDevitt, The Engines of God

“made up Southern Hope. The snowfields rolled out flat in all directions. The sky was hard and clear, the sun beginning to sink toward”
― Jack McDevitt, The Engines of God

“In the streets of Hau-kai, we wait. Night comes, winter descends, The lights of the world grow cold. And, in this three-hundredth year From the ascendancy of Bilat, He will come who treads the dawn. Tramples the sun beneath his feet, And judges the souls of men. He will stride across the rooftops, And he will fire the engines of God.”
― Jack McDevitt, The Engines of God