Rab Butler (1902–1982) British politician
Butler as Chancellor of the Exchequer (30 November 1951), quoted in Correlli Barnett, The Verdict of Peace. Britain Between Her Yesterday and the Future (Pan, 2002), p. 1.
“Continual miniaturisation allows resources to be conserved, efficiency to be increased, pollution to be reduced, and the remarkable flexibilities of the quantum world to be tapped.”
The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos (2011)
Context: Continual miniaturisation allows resources to be conserved, efficiency to be increased, pollution to be reduced, and the remarkable flexibilities of the quantum world to be tapped. Very advanced civilizations elsewhere in the universe may have been force to follow the same technological path. Their nano-scale space probes, their atomic-scale machines and nano-computers, would be imperceptible to our course-grained surveys of the universe.... This may be the low-impact evolutionary path you need to follow in order to survive into the far, far future.<!--ch. 2, pp. 23-24
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Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
As quoted in "The View from the Year 2000" http://books.google.com/books?id=kVMEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Pollution+is+nothing+but+resources+we're+not+harvesting+We+allow+them+to+disperse+because+we've+been+ignorant+of+their+value%22&pg=PA52#v=onepage by Barry Farrell in LIFE magazine (26 February 1971)<br>Statement made in 1974, quoted in People magazine. In Thomas T. K. Zung, "Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for the New Millenium" (2002), 174. <br class="br">1970s <br class="br">Context: Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. But if we got onto a planning planning basis, the government could trap pollutants in the stacks and spillages and get back more money than this would cost out of the stockpiled chemistries they'd be collecting.<br>Margaret Mead gets cross with me when I talk like this because she says people are doing some very important things because they're worried and excited and I'm going to make them relax and stop doing those things. But we're dealing with something much bigger than we're accustomed to understanding, we're on a very large course indeed. You speak of racism, for example, and I tell you that there's no such thing as race. The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy.
John Trudell (1946–2015) Native American rights activist, musician, poet
"We are Power" speech (1980)
“The most efficient and practical interpretation of quantum mechanics is… no interpretation at all.”
F. J. Duarte (1954) Chilean-American physicist
in [Quantum Optics for Engineers, CRC, New York, 2013, 978-1439888537, F. J. Duarte]
Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
Presidency (1977–1981), Farewell Address (1981)
Context: Acknowledging the physical realities of our planet does not mean a dismal future of endless sacrifice. In fact, acknowledging these realities is the first step in dealing with them. We can meet the resource problems of the world — water, food, minerals, farmlands, forests, overpopulation, pollution — if we tackle them with courage and foresight.
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) United States Secretary of State
National Security Study Memorandum 200. Adapted as policy by President General Ford originally classified. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Study_Memorandum_200 <br class="br">1970s
Thomas A. Kochan (1947) American academic
Source: The transformation of American industrial relations, 1986, p. 147
“Conservative pundits have a remarkable amount of free speech.”
Michael Parenti (1933) American academic
1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Free Speech-At A Price, p. 83
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
“This would, at a stroke, reduce the rise in prices, increase production and reduce unemployment.”
Edward Heath (1916–2005) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970–1974)
Statement (16 June 1970), quoted in The Times (17 June 1970), p. 4. This would be quoted back at Heath repeatedly during his premiership.
Leader of the Opposition
Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist
You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)