For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its produ...
I want to make a difference in the world because I believe that's what science is for.
Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom.
All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.
Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.
My loving sister Mary has always shared the pain and pleasure of my heartbeat in a unique and special way. We have sung our sad and warm songs together.
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.
I've got a soft spot for Theatr Colwyn because my granddad used to run the Colwyn amateur dramatic society in the 1930s.
It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.
The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.
Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul.
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.
The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
I love dishes that feature the various shades of a single colour, making you stop to check what's in there.
Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.
I walk into the office at Southwark Bridge every morning, and I have no idea what's going to happen.
I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn't.
I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
