The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.

Perhaps one of the most meaningful ways to sense the impact of the environmental crisis is to confront the question which is always asked about Lake Erie: how can we restore it? I believe the only valid answer is that no one knows. For it should be clear that even if overnight all of the pollutants now pouring into Lake Erie were stopped, there would still remain the problem of the accumulated mass of pollutants in the lake bottom.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.