鈥淪melly, fiddly, rubbery condoms are not part of the cinema鈥檚 lexicon of love鈥�
Critic Peter Bradshaw explaining why none of the most popular films of the past 20 years contains scenes promoting safe sex (The Guardian, London, 3 October)
鈥淭he whole point is to fool them into thinking I am a shark鈥�
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Fabian Cousteau, grandson of the legendary Jacques, who is studying the creatures from within a steel and plastic underwater submersible built to resemble a great white shark (The Sunday Times, London, 2 October)
鈥淭he challenge of Darwinian thinking to traditional Christianity is deep and profound. That means that Christianity鈥檚 survival depends on its being big enough to embrace a post-Darwinian world. If we cannot then Christianity will surely die鈥�
US Anglican bishop John Shelby Spong commentating in his weekly newsletter (28 September)
鈥淲e are here to talk about sound science 鈥� a worthy and important subject. We are not here to talk about plays, novels, art or music鈥�
Democrat senator Barbara Boxer criticising the decision to summon author and climate-change sceptic Michael Crichton to give evidence at a senate hearing on global warming (The Guardian, London, 29 September)
鈥淭hat was not the right path. We are now trying to change the path while doing as little damage as we can鈥�
NASA chief Michael Griffin makes a blunt admission that the agency鈥檚 commitment to the shuttle programme and the International Space Station was a mistake (USA Today, 27 September)