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Soundbites

“I’m fascinated by science’s dogmatic determinism that any action arises from hydrogen atoms bashing together after the big bang.â€

Artist Keith Tyson defining his work after winning Britain’s Turner prize for his sci-fi inspired drawings (The Guardian, London, 9 December)

“I reiterate Iraq has no such weapons. If the US has minimum levels of fairness and bravery it should accept the report.â€

General Mohammed Amin, in charge of producing Iraq’s dossier to the UN on its chemical, biological and nuclear programmes (The Independent on Sunday, London, 8 December)

“It’s the mother of all gobbledegook.â€

Senior British diplomat instantly dismissing the Iraqi dossier (The Sunday Times, London, 8 December)

“We talk about the developing world and the developed world. This is the deteriorating world.â€

Sarah O’Hara of the University of Nottingham in England, commenting on the water crisis facing Uzbekistan (The New York Times online, 9 December)

“People say that’s when sex was safe and the Russians were dangerous.â€

³Õ²¹³æ³Ò±ð²Ô’s Phillip Berman on the year 1984, when he started working on AIDS vaccines (San Francisco Chronicle, 9 December)

“How does the poor patient convince the authorities that they are not terrorists?â€

Fred Mettler of the University of New Mexico after a man treated with radioactive iodine was twice strip-searched upon triggering radiation detectors on the New York subway (The New York Times, 4 December)