We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.
A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.
We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.
When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?
What's really clear to all of us in the business community is that GDP is slowing everywhere. And the reason is productivity has been declining now for 15 or 20 years all over the world. So we've got very high unemployment, and it's structural. And it's compounded by real-time climate change - that's really a game changer.
Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows.
James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the age, and humanity made its first tentative steps into an industrial way of life that would, over the next two centuries, forever change the world.
I am now. . . on a subject, which fills me with inexpressible concern. . . . But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.
We've both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment.
Inspiration comes from all different places.
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.