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We might have destroyed ourselves, but at least it would have been our own fault.
Would it, though? Whose fault exactly? Yours? Mine? No, it would have been the result of several billion human beings making relatively innocuous choices: to have kids, drive a car to work, keep their job, solve the short-term problems first. When you reach the point at which even the most trivial acts are punishable by the death of the species, then obviously, obviously, you're at a critical juncture, a different kind of point of no return.

Robert Charles Wilson
From this new point of view, the universe I had inhabited became an object I could perceive in its entirety. It was a hypersphere embedded in a cloud of alternative states—the sum of all possible quantum trajectories from the big bang to the decay of matter. Reality —history as we had known or inferred it—was only the most likely of these possible trajectories. There were countless others, real in a different sense: a vast but finite set of paths not taken, a ghostly forest of quantum alternatives, the shores of an unknown sea.

Robert Charles Wilson
But you're a Philosopher! Julian exclaimed at one point. This is Philosophy, not Religion, since you rule out supernatural beings—you know that as well as I do!
I suppose it is Philosophy, looked at from one angle, Stepney conceded. But there's no money in Philosophy, Julian. Religion is far more lucrative as a career.

Robert Charles Wilson
There's no point living if you can't, at least occasionally, live.

Robert Charles Wilson
I suppose he could have said this more gently, but what would be the point?

Robert Charles Wilson