When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the blowing off of mass by radiation, reduce the star's mass to the order of that of the sun, this contraction will continue indefinitely.

Maybe General Groves was right. Maybe we should just banish thinking forever.

Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage.

Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend.

You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita... "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.