Most of my scientific work has been basic research. There were no immediate uses for my discoveries, but today the radioisotopes are the workhorses o…

- Glenn T. Seaborg

One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of coal. At least one execution for…

- Glenn T. Seaborg

The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.

- Glenn T. Seaborg

The modern technological world appears overwhelming to many people. It drives some to pessimism and despair. It makes others doubt the future of mank…

- Glenn T. Seaborg

If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war.

- Glenn T. Seaborg

People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his biddi…

- Glenn T. Seaborg

I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race, possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution, is that it h…

- Glenn T. Seaborg

There are young people today who feel that we shouldn't have developed the atomic bomb, that it was a mistake. Through no fault of their own, they do…

- Glenn T. Seaborg

All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.

- Glenn T. Seaborg