Chad Oliver

"Ignorance always carries a price tag."

"One thing about a science: it works. If an engineer knows his business, his bridge does not fall down."

"His eyes told him the truth: Lake City was not precisely a ghost town, but the coffin was ready and the hole was dug."

"He talked, and listened, and tried to do the hardest thing of all. He tried to understand."

"He has looked long at the stars, and that is the beginning of wisdom."