"The age of innocent faith in science and……" — Barry Commoner

"The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over."

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50 Quotes by Barry Commoner

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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common…
What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and…
When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to…
Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a…
We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable…
In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the…
If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the…
By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a…
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which…

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More Age Quotes

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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