Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.

We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.

We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century', and yet that's what we're demanding in food production.

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops.

There are probably already too many people on the planet.

If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.

Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.

The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.

For me science is not different from art, except in the one small, crucial detail that experiments speak their own truths, not ours.

A dead Christ I must do everything for

If you have hung yourself out to dry, it means that you are still wet behind the ears.

The work of our missionaries is a magnificent expression of the Lord's redeeming love.

All I've ever tried to tell anyone is that I'm not a black man or a white man or anything else. All I've ever been was an American.

There was a rumor that Jesse Jackson was going to go over there to talk with the Taliban, apparently they were having trouble rhyming the word Jihad.

There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.

Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.

There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

I like very little to talk. There are many things I cannot say, I can only feel them and dance them.

The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but because England needed a successor to Oliver Cromwell.