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.

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

One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi.

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

The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.

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

We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started on issues such as climate change or genetically modified organisms.