Quotes for All
Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth. Dave Barry
In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters…part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them. We see that the ecological movement, environmentalist movement, organizes all kinds of demonstrations against these. They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates. Akbar Ganji
The middle class, in any society, plays the role of graphite rods in nuclear reactors: they slow down the reaction and, if it weren’t for them, the reactor would explode. A society without a middle class is a society primed for explosion. Ahmed Toufiq
If they don’t close these [nuclear] reactors down, we’ll have civil war in five years. Ralph Nader
Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators. Abdus Salam
People either buy nuclear power, nuclear reactors from outside, and don’t train their own men, or they just don’t go into nuclear power at all, they are so afraid of it. Abdus Salam
I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
Abdallah II
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… How would I be? What would I do? We may now care for each Earthian individual at a sustainable billionaire’s level of affluence while living exclusively on less than 1 percent of our planet’s daily energy income from our cosmically designed nuclear reactor, the Sun, optimally located 92 million safe miles away from us.
R. Buckminster Fuller