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

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.

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.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

The only valid faith today is disbelief.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.

No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.

Sometimes hell has no words.

We're improving and taking our levels of customer satisfaction higher and higher....Our customers are happier than they were before.

I like going into a school matinee. I like to be behind the stage because there's a spy-hole and what you see is the best moment in all theatre.

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.