Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast difference between recycling for the purpose of feeling good and recycling for the purpose of solving the trash problem.

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

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.

All of the clean technologies are known, it's a question of simply applying them.

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

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