Top 40 Quotes by Barry Commoner

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.

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

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.

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

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

I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.