You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it.

I do have fun. Even when I’m fighting I’m enjoying it: I think there’s nothing as exhilarating as protecting that which you find precious.

Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.

Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances.

Given that I was interested in physics, I think it was easier for me to do physics in India.

We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.

Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.