鈥淣o matter where she lives or what she does, a woman should never need her partner鈥檚 permission to save her own life.鈥�
Bill Gates at the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada, on funding research into microbicides that women can use as protection against HIV (The Guardian, London, 15 August)
鈥淲e are confident that they are stored at Goddard Space Flight Center鈥� we just don鈥檛 know where precisely.鈥�
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John Sarkissian of the Parkes Observatory in Australia on reports that NASA has lost the tapes of the first moon landing (SPACE.com, 13 August)
鈥淗e looked like Rasputin, with long hair and fingernails.鈥�
Mathematician Robert Greene on unworldly Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman, whom he met in the 1990s. Perelman is widely tipped to win a Fields medal next week for solving the Poincar茅 conjecture (The New York Times, 15 August)
鈥淭he rationale for why a woman鈥檚 sex drive declines may be down to supply and demand. If something is in infinite supply, the perceived value would drop.鈥�
George Fieldman of Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, UK, on a report suggesting that a woman鈥檚 sex drive plummets once she is in a secure relationship (BBC online, 14 August)
鈥淚 dare you to point at [any] group that wouldn鈥檛 be aggressive as a result of being treated that way.鈥�
New Zealand鈥檚 Maori minister Hone Harawira arguing that severe poverty and high unemployment are to blame for the violence in Maori communities, and not a 鈥渨arrior鈥� gene as claimed by geneticist Rod Lea (AFP, 9 August)