In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.

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.

A good marriage is not “made in heaven, ” but on earth. Love is a fragile commodity which needs to be cultivated and nourished constantly.

You are a gift, so open yourself everyday to see the beauty with love, wonder and feel the joy.

The universe is non-simultaneously apprehended

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

I just worry about the girls who look up to me. I don't want them to think I starve myself or don't eat, and that to be like me that's what they have to do.

How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.

I finished high school, so now I'm planning to take a few classes in college when I'm not working.

I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism.

Six months go by very quickly when you're a genius.

I think I have changed a lot. People might feel a little unfamiliar with the new me, but this is just who I am. I realised that I just want to be free.