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

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.

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

We don't get to choose who we love. Or stop loving them when they're difficult.

Hey Highbrow. Next time remember to tuck and roll.

Economics has accurately been called the science of the single instance.

In early youth as we contemplate our coming life we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.

It's my obligation to take out all the 'wrong' pictures.

I intend to make Scientology as accessible to as many people as I can.

Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.

I hope to continue to be serving South Dakota in Congress.