If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.

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.

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.

What happened?" he demanded. "I heard an explosion!""Yeah.That was me. I set the boat alight.""What?""I set fire to the boat.""But we're on the boat!""I know.

You can say anything to anyone, but how you say it will determine how they will react.

Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.

Whoever coined the phrase, killing two birds with one stone, not only hated birds but also thought we needed to conserve stones.

poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.

Jack's [Ma Yun ] theory is that whoever controls data controls the world.

Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets.

Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.

I think I did not like him [Corey Feldman] in Goonies. He's kind of a similar character in Stand By Me isn't he? Well I liked him in Stand By Me.