鈥淲e鈥檙e screwed.鈥�
Michael Osterholm, head of the Center for Infectious Disease Research at the University of Minnesota, on the impact of an H5N1 bird flu pandemic if it hit today (US News and World Report, 16 June)
鈥淚 will crack open the champagne. Absolutely.鈥�
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The UK government鈥檚 chief scientific adviser David King, on the prospect of getting a commitment to curb climate change at the G8 meeting (The Observer, London, 19 June)
鈥淎nd that鈥檚 what they call science. It is totally absurd, obscene, inhumane and we want to stop it.鈥�
Ian Campbell, Australia鈥檚 environment minister, on Japan鈥檚 plan to extend its whale catch to include humpback whales in the name of scientific research. (Japan Times, 20 June)
鈥淓veryone I know at school does it. I鈥idn鈥檛 know it was wrong.鈥�
Emily Price, 14, whose mother faces prison if she cannot pay a 拢4000 fine from the British Phonographic Industry. Her daughter allegedly downloaded 1400 songs via a peer to peer file-sharing program (The Guardian, London, 21 June)
鈥淲e are never going to solve it by throwing science at it.鈥�
Eugenie Scott, director of the US National Center for Science Education, explains why scientists boycotted the Kansas State Board鈥檚 hearings on teaching evolution. She branded the hearings a 鈥減olitical show trial鈥� (The New York Times, 21 June)
鈥淸It] represents the complete evolution of mankind.鈥�
Howard Hong, a Los Angeles art collector, describes the artwork of Congo, a London Zoo chimpanzee who died in 1964. Hong bought three of Congo鈥檚 paintings for 拢14,400 this week (The Daily Telegraph, London, 21 June)