鈥淎 guy named Arkhipov saved the world.鈥�
Thomas Blanton, director of the US National Security Archive, on a Russian submarine officer who refused to open fire during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis (Washington Post, 13 October)
鈥淲e鈥檝e gone beyond bottom-pinching, but the latest form of discrimination is institutionalised sexism.鈥�
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Susan Greenfield, director of the Royal Institution, London, speaking on sexism in science (9 October)
鈥淚f you took out all the oil from your head, your hair would fall out. So if we鈥檙e taking all the oil out of the Earth, then what鈥檚 going to happen to it?鈥�
British artist Tracey Emin, on her fears for the environment (The Guardian, London, 12 October)
鈥淲hen you come to space, your tastes change. One of my favourite foods on the ground is shrimp. Up here I can鈥檛 stand it.鈥�
Peggy Whitson, International Space Station scientist, regretting her menu choices (Reuters, 13 October)
鈥淚t鈥檚 not acceptable that 72 per cent of the world鈥檚 population has access to 11 per cent of the medication.鈥�
Statement from the OECD after a biotechnology conference (9 October)
鈥淲ith humane euthanasia we could promise all the animals a good death. There was no way we could promise them a good life.鈥�
Meryl Harrison of the Zimbabwe National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, on the fate of 500 dogs left behind after farmers鈥� evictions (Reuters, 14 October)