The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

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

Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.

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

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

Everything is connected to everything else.