98 Quotes by David R. Brower

Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.

Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.

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.

The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.

Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.

Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations.

What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?