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

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.

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.

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

I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, he's up!

The more you offer yourself to make life better for someone, the more you empty yourself of the load of destiny you carry into the world. Serve till you empty all.

Beautiful things have been broken before…

Stop now and always wonder. Press forward and tap the wonder.

To travel and to get around different places, especially in station wagons, you could really see America.

All my different kinds of artwork have been designed to inspire people to think. They may not always agree with me, but at least they will have some feelings and some passion about whatever it is.

I wish I could just hug you all, but I'm not gonna.

Love is a verb and verbs show action

When you're frustrated with people, when they've made you angry, it just may be because you haven't given them enough time.

It actually turns out to be much harder to really understand government across state local and federal.