David Brin said this quote

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

~ David Brin

...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge.

~ David Brin

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

~ David Brin

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

~ David Brin