So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.

Basic income is not a utopia, it's a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey.

You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.

Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows.

The world's environment can no longer handle beef.

Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

Everyone else is just cocktails.

I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.

Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart. It changes your life. And that's what happened to me.

Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation.

You have to be ready to give everything you have, and you have to make sure you've really got a lot to give. Because if ... you're not ready to give everything you have, ... then you're nothin'.

I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up.

Everyone has the right to their own opinion.