鈥淣o one can be comfortable at the prospect of continuing to pump out the amounts of carbon dioxide that we are at present鈥� Sequestration is difficult. But if we don鈥檛 have sequestration I see very little hope for the world.鈥�
Ron Oxburgh, chairman of UK branch of oil firm Shell (The Guardian, 17 June)
鈥淭his is perfectly reasonable, since a non-working missile defense system should be sufficient to deter a non-existent threat from Iran or North Korea.鈥�
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Bob Park, editor of the American Physical Society鈥檚 鈥淲hat鈥檚 New鈥� newsletter, on the US Senate Armed Services Committee鈥檚 decision to deploy the missile system without independent tests to prove it works (18 June)
鈥淚f you enjoy life like I do, it鈥檚 damn silly to smoke because you won鈥檛 get as much of it.鈥�
Epidemiologist Richard Doll of the University of Oxford, announcing a 50-year update of his landmark 1954 study linking smoking with lung cancer (press conference, 22 June)
鈥淲e think it鈥檚 Larry Flynt鈥檚 responsibility to set an example.鈥�
Michael Weinstein of the AIDS Health Care Foundation, which is demanding that condoms be worn by porn actors working for Flynt鈥檚 Hustler company (CNN.com, 17 June)
鈥淚f he did do it, it was a tremendous feat of athleticism heretofore not known to this species.鈥�
Gorilla behaviour expert Terry L. Maple on Jabari, the gorilla who seems to have escaped from an enclosure at Dallas Zoo by leaping over a 3.5-metre moat and a 4-metre-high wall (CNN.com, 19 June)