There are probably already too many people on the planet.

In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We're now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate.

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.

India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.

In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that's because genomes can change, and people working with plants have picked mutations. Mutations are nothing more than genetic changes.

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

For me science is not different from art, except in the one small, crucial detail that experiments speak their own truths, not ours.