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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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