鈥淚 sometimes think it would be better to drown children than to lock them up in present-day schools.鈥�
Nobel prizewinner Marie Curie, according to recently discovered notes taken by one of her pupils in 1907, now published for the first time (Le莽ons de Marie Curie, EDP Sciences)
鈥淚f one person dies and a family is left mourning, that鈥檚 sad. But if the whole town goes at once, it鈥檚 OK.鈥�
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Pompei resident Maria Scoppa on why townspeople are turning down government offers to pay them to move away from the Mount Vesuvius volcano (International Herald Tribune, 26 August)
鈥淲hat鈥檚 happened in Paris is awful, but as far as we鈥檙e concerned the treatment was absolutely right for Christopher.鈥�
Rachel Reid, whose son was cured of 鈥渂ubble-boy disease鈥� by gene therapy. Two children in France developed leukaemia after similar treatment (The Guardian, London, 26 August)
鈥淏y putting a substantial price on the heads of these doyens of destruction, I am confident that we can bring them to justice.鈥�
Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley on the $50,000 reward offered for identifying the eco-terrorists damaging sports utility vehicles, or SUVs (NBC, 25 August)
鈥淏ehind SoBig we have a group of hackers who have a budget and money.鈥�
Mikko Hypponen of antivirus company F-Secure, who suspects the computer virus which rampaged through networks last week was an organised attempt to take control of vulnerable machines (The New York Times, 25 August)