Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.

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.

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.

Respect is a thing earned, not bought, and a man who lets it be known that he seeks respect will probably never see it bestowed.

Begin accepting the gift now, and have every beautiful and good thing in life — and then share.

Creativity is no less challenging or exciting when the mystery is stripped from the creative process. The most beautiful flowers grow under careful cultivation from common soil.

If you will keep being your best right where you are, you will come into more favor, promotion and opportunity than you ever imagined.

See not perfection in self. Seek it not in others. One being a false perceptionThe other, an endless quest.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe

As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.

I never tried to kill myself or anything.

There's a price tag on everything including black people's lives and what they do with them.