Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.

At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now.

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.

I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.