Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

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

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.

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

We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds get carried. Sometimes, if they're very small seeds, they get scattered off trucks. Pollen travels.