Politicians always seemed to be willing to sacrifice the general welfare to win votes. - Jack McDevitt

He’d grown a mustache since Randall had last seen him. It was hard to understand why: He looked devious enough without it.

It had occurred to Rimford, at about the time he approached fifty, that the chief drawback in contemplating the enormous gulfs of time and space that constitute the bricks and mortar of the cosmologist is that one acquires a dismaying perception of the handful of years allotted a human being.

Emily had not been trained as a scientist, so she tended to draw conclusions based on emotional need rather than on evidence.