I Am Become Death, The Destroyer Of

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.

Optimists Think That This Is The Best Of All Possible Worlds; Pessimists Fear They Are Right.

The Optimist Thinks This Is The Best Of All Possible Worlds. The Pessimist Fears It Is True.

Bertrand Russell Had Given A Talk On The Then New Quantum Mechanics, Of Whose Wonders He Was Most Appreciative. He Spoke Hard And Earnestly In The New Lecture Hall. And When He Was Done, Professor Whitehead, Who Presided, Thanked Him For His Efforts, And Not Least For 'leaving The Vast Darkness Of The Subject Unobscured'.

We Knew The World Would Not Be The Same. A Few People Laughed, A Few People Cried, Most People Were Silent. I Remembered The Line From The Hindu Scripture, The Bhagavad-gita; Vishnu Is Trying To Persuade The Prince That He Should Do His Duty And, To Impress Him, Takes On His Multi-armed Form And Says, "now I Am Become Death, The Destroyer Of Worlds." I Suppose We All Thought That, One Way Or Another.