Nina Fedoroff Quotes

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.

As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain.

The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better.

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

I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.