The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.
Nina FedoroffIn 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.
Nina FedoroffFor me science is not different from art, except in the one small, crucial detail that experiments speak their own truths, not ours.
Nina FedoroffWe need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.
Nina Fedoroff