Atomic energy Quote by Frederick Soddy

There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. The glib supposition of utilizing atomic energy when our coal has…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

Coal, oil and natural gas have lit homes and powered machinery for centuries, driving civilization forward. But as human development accelerated, the unsustainability of…

— Tulsi Tanti

The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.

— Lamar S. Smith

Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of living from…

— Bill McKibben

As expanding economies continue to grow, the one source of energy that we can develop rapidly, cheaply and with next-to-no emissions is nuclear energy.

— Craig Stevens

There has always been enough fossil fuels to power human civilization for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, and nuclear energy is effectively infinite.

— Michael Shellenberger

The biggest untapped source of energy today is our youth. I am from an age of consumerism, but my two daughters are young enough…

— Mike Horn

Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the…

— Svante Arrhenius

Everybody wants clean, safe energy. Some people think nuclear is the way to go. Some people think coal is the way to go. Some…

— Penn Jillette

The history of energy use is a sequence of transitions to sources that are cheaper, cleaner, and more flexible.

— Vaclav Smil

Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to…

— John Olver

Fossil fuels powered the U.S. into the industrial age and replaced windmills and wood burning, which were inefficient, as the primary sources of electricity.

— Stephen Moore