The Oppenheimer Alternative Quotes

“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

“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, The Oppenheimer Alternative

“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

“they were expected to, well, to be sciencing by oh eight hundred.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, The Oppenheimer Alternative

“Question: What is an optimist? Answer: One who thinks the future is uncertain.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, The Oppenheimer Alternative

“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

“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