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"'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad."
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"Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes."

"I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless."
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"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."

"I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster."
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"Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away."
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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."


"We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart."


"I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living."


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


"Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?"


"I will say this, - though: If it is true that fusion will put unlimited amounts of energy into our hands, then I'm worried. Our record on this score is extremely poor."


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