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Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds”
J. Robert Oppenheimer (quoting the Bhagavad Gita)
We don’t consider this land as our Mother
You see, that’s really what’s going to happen to the Earth. We’re going to have tidal waves. We’re going to have earthquakes. That’s coming. because we don’t consider this land as our Mother. ”
Guboo Thomas, Aboriginal Elder
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything
“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.”
Albert Einstein
The universe is implacably progressing toward final darkness and decay
“Everything indeed, everything visible in nature or established in theory, suggests that the universe is implacably progressing toward final darkness and decay.”
Lincoln Barnett
I decline to accept the end of man.
“I decline to accept the end of man.”
William Faulkner (Nobel Prize acceptance speech)
When the sky is rent asunder…
“When the sky is rent asunder, when the stars scatter and the oceans roll together, when the graves are hurled about, each soul shall know what it has done and what it has failed to do.”
The Koran, 82:1 (Penguin Classics, 5th Edition as translated by N.J. Dawood)
It is intolerable that he be doomed to complete annihilation…
Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is intolerable that he be doomed to complete annihilation after such a long-continued process.”
Charles Darwin
I looked, and there was a white horse! Its rider had a bow…
“I looked, and there was a white horse! Its rider had a bow…and he came out conquering and to conquer. When he opened the second seal…out came another horse, bright red; it’s rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people would slaughter one another…I looked, and there was a black horse! […]
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