Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

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

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

Technologists practice faith too; 'Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.'

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.