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"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."
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"The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place."
Work
"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."
May
"Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom."
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"Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place."
Work
"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."
People
"It's very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scientifically feasible. I just can't understand how so many people are able to predict so much about something that still isn't scientifically possible."
People
"I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams."
Power
"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?"
Land
"Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million."
Vote
"Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field."
Earth
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"I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning."
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"It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations."
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"Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations."
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"Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations."
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"There are many problems which could only be solved by generations which are still to be born later. It's only one way of many how God gives answers to human problems and prayers."
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"Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures."
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"I think for writers who write that kind of stuff, they want to make changes. Look at Kris Kristofferson and Dylan. I mean, whole generations come along liking that stuff and that's great."
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"The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto."
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