鈥淲e are not interested in creating monsters.鈥�
Panayiotis Zavos of the Andrology Institute of America, claiming that he has a cloned human embryo ready for implantation, and that the firm has also worked on human-cow hybrid embryos (Press conference, London, 15 September)
鈥淲e don鈥檛 need atomic bombs, and based on our religious teaching we will not pursue them. But being strong demands knowledge and technology.鈥�
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Mohammad Khatami, President of Iran (Reuters, 15 September)
鈥淗eemskirk has the potential to be a giant orange-bellied parrot blender.鈥�
Nick McKim of the Tasmanian Green Party, outlining the threat to endangered parrots from a proposed wind farm (Press release, 9 September)
鈥淭hese people give Joe Stalin a good name.鈥�
Wayne Rosso of music file-sharing outfit Grokster, on lawsuits filed against alleged music downloaders (The Washington Post, 11 September)
鈥淭hey are not as common as bears, but around 2000 sasquatch [are thought to] inhabit the forests of the Pacific Northwest.鈥�
Dimitri Bayanov of the State Darwin Museum of Natural History in Moscow, speaking at the Bigfoot Symposium in Willow Creek, California (San Francisco Chronicle, 14 September)
鈥淢ost [MRC] scientists gave evidence anonymously. That implies they are afraid to say openly what they think.鈥�
Colin Blakemore, incoming chief of the UK鈥檚 Medical Research Council, after a government committee criticised the council鈥檚 management (The Observer, London, 14 September)