98 Quotes by David R. Brower

I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.

I will say this, - though: If it is true that fusion will put unlimited amounts of energy into our hands, then I'm worried. Our record on this score is extremely poor.

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.

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

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

Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.

Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.