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Barry Commoner Quotes: Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.
         

Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.


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Everything is connected to everything else.



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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.



The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.



The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.



Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.



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

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



Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.



The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.

The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.



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.

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.





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Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.



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I respect your right to hold your religious beliefs, and if they help you, I think that's great. I would, however, like to inform you that you are a raving kook.

I respect your right to hold your religious beliefs, and if they help you, I think that's great. I would, however, like to inform you that you are a raving kook.




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