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.

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

Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

Candor disarms paranoia.

Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves

I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

The creator of the universe is lining up things in my favour.

What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. Its just remarkable.

Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things, and I think it should be valued as such, and protected as this centre for bohemia.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

In creative endeavors luck is a skill.