鈥淢y attacks on George W. Bush have nothing to do with science. I just can鈥檛 stand the man鈥檚 style, the way he swaggers and struts and smirks and the way he looks sly and deceitful and the way Americans can鈥檛 see it.鈥�
Evolutionary biologist and author Richard Dawkins on the newly re-elected US president (The Sunday Times, London, 28 November)
鈥淭hey鈥檙e really Satan鈥檚 little runaround.鈥�
Advertisement
Andrew Simms, policy director for the London-based New Economics Foundation, damns sports utility vehicles for being polluting and dangerous to pedestrians (BBC News online, 26 November)
鈥淎 university without a chemistry department should be stripped of the title and redesignated a liberal arts college, which is all it is.鈥�
Harry Kroto, Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of buckyballs, lamenting the closure of the chemistry departments of many UK universities (The Sunday Times, London, 28 November)
鈥淲HO is not trying to scare the planet.鈥�
A World Health Organization spokesperson responding to a warning by another WHO official that up to 100 million people will die if bird flu becomes a human pandemic (The New York Times, 29 November)
鈥�$3 billion is a lot of money, and there鈥檚 potential for a lot of people to get very wealthy without accomplishing any public good.鈥�
Wayne C. Johnson on California鈥檚 stem cell initiative, in which the electorate voted for $3 billion to be pumped into research. Johnson ran a campaign against the ballot. (The New York Times, 27 November)
