鈥淵ou shouldn鈥檛 frighten people into thinking smoking might be dangerous.鈥�
Richard Doll recalls the reaction of the UK Department of Health鈥檚 cancer advisory committee to his 1952 study that showed a link between smoking and lung cancer (The Observer, London, 24 April)
鈥淵ou see the animals crawling on the ground, swelling and then exploding.鈥�
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Werner Smolnik of a nature protection society in Hamburg, Germany, on the unexplained phenomenon of exploding toads in the Altona district of the city (Agence France Presse, 23 April)
鈥淚 could feel the hairs standing up on my arms. 鈥業 think I鈥檝e got that,鈥� I thought 鈥� although I wasn鈥檛 sure.鈥�
British engineer David Clark, recalls the moment he realised his 1965 copy of Electronics Magazine, in which Intel founder Gordon Moore first articulated 鈥淢oore鈥檚 law鈥�, might net him a $10,000 reward. Clark鈥檚 wife had wanted to throw the magazines out (BBC news online, 22 April)
鈥淵ou are devoting 10 to 12 years of your life to watching TV. What would you be doing with those 10 years otherwise?鈥�
David Burke, founder of the UK branch of White Dot, an organisation that will be protesting against TVs in bars and restaurants using a zapper dubbed 鈥淭V-B-Gone鈥� to switch off TV sets in public places (The Guardian, London, 25 April)
鈥淭here鈥檚 something frightening about grown men waiting in line all night to buy Star Wars toys that they鈥檙e not even going to play with or open.鈥�
David Ireland of Columbus, Ohio, muses on Celebration III, the largest ever Star Wars convention in Indianapolis (USA Today, 24 April)