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The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.
Einstein's Monsters (1987)
Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
Einstein's Monsters (1987)
"Einstein's Monsters," by the way, refers to nuclear weapons, but also to ourselves. We are Einstein's monsters, not fully human, not for now.
Einstein's Monsters (1987)
Bujak spoke of Einstein as if he were God's literary critic, God being a poet. I, more stolidly, tend to suspect that God is a novelist — a garrulous and deeply unwholesome one too.
Einstein's Monsters (1987)
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
Einstein's Monsters (1987)
For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don’t want to have to hang about for the blast, which idles along at the speed of sound.
Einstein's Monsters (1987)