鈥淚鈥檓 fascinated by science鈥檚 dogmatic determinism that any action arises from hydrogen atoms bashing together after the big bang.鈥�
Artist Keith Tyson defining his work after winning Britain鈥檚 Turner prize for his sci-fi inspired drawings (The Guardian, London, 9 December)
鈥淚 reiterate Iraq has no such weapons. If the US has minimum levels of fairness and bravery it should accept the report.鈥�
Advertisement
General Mohammed Amin, in charge of producing Iraq鈥檚 dossier to the UN on its chemical, biological and nuclear programmes (The Independent on Sunday, London, 8 December)
鈥淚t鈥檚 the mother of all gobbledegook.鈥�
Senior British diplomat instantly dismissing the Iraqi dossier (The Sunday Times, London, 8 December)
鈥淲e talk about the developing world and the developed world. This is the deteriorating world.鈥�
Sarah O鈥橦ara of the University of Nottingham in England, commenting on the water crisis facing Uzbekistan (The New York Times online, 9 December)
鈥淧eople say that鈥檚 when sex was safe and the Russians were dangerous.鈥�
痴补虫骋别苍鈥檚 Phillip Berman on the year 1984, when he started working on AIDS vaccines (San Francisco Chronicle, 9 December)
鈥淗ow does the poor patient convince the authorities that they are not terrorists?鈥�
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)