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

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

We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops.

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

There are probably already too many people on the planet.

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.

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.