"The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate lite…"

"We are poisoning our children's future with our shortsighted actions."

"The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man."

"The chemical industry's response to my book is exactly what I expected: a campaign of misinformation and personal attacks."

"The public is being misled, and it is a scandal of the highest order."