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The Oppenheimer Alternative QUOTES

The Oppenheimer Alternative QUOTES

1 " Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. "

― Robert J. Sawyer , The Oppenheimer Alternative

2 " Question: What is an optimist? Answer: One who thinks the future is uncertain. "

― Robert J. Sawyer , The Oppenheimer Alternative

3 " they were expected to, well, to be sciencing by oh eight hundred. "

― Robert J. Sawyer , The Oppenheimer Alternative

4 " Scientists aren’t responsible for the facts that are in nature. It’s their job to find the facts. There’s no sin connected with it—no morals. If anyone should have a sense of sin, it’s God. He put the facts there. —Percy Bridgman, "

― Robert J. Sawyer , The Oppenheimer Alternative

5 " To a European, a hundred miles is a big journey; to an American, a hundred years is a long time. "

― Robert J. Sawyer , The Oppenheimer Alternative

6 " That panic had been over a single one-hour broadcast on one network in one country saying the world was coming to an end,” continued Groves. “Imagine what a constant barrage of such coverage everywhere on the planet for weeks or months would do. "

― Robert J. Sawyer , The Oppenheimer Alternative

7 " Maybe when a planet’s inhabitants begin to comprehend the true nature of the atom and all the energy it contains they become too dangerous to be allowed loose in the universe. "

― Robert J. Sawyer , The Oppenheimer Alternative