“Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihila...” — Barney Oliver Quote

“Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.”

“The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.”

“The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.”

“No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.”

“Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.”

“Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.”

“The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion.”

“The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.”

“I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through junior college, which is all I went, I didn't know anything about the annihilation of all the Indian nations that were here.”

“Ah-rah-han, the first Buddhist apostle of Burma, under the patronage of King Anan-ra-tha-men-zan, disseminated the doctrines of atheism and taught his disciples to pant after annihilation as the supreme good.”

“Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.”

“I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!'”