It was equally imperative that this chain of reactions should always tend to dampen, to die out. It must not build up, or the uranium mass would explode within a time interval too short to be measured by any means whatsoever. Nor would there be anyone left to measure it.
Robert A. HeinleinI was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
Robert A. HeinleinDeath isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us โ us humans โ death is so sad that we must laugh at it.
Robert A. Heinlein