鈥淚t鈥檚 creating a big weapon against Christians that鈥檚 killing our faith鈥hen children go to museums they鈥檒l start believing we evolved from these apes.鈥�
Bishop Boniface Adoyo of Kenya, who is leading a campaign to have human fossil remains removed from the National Museum of Kenya (The Observer, London, 10 September)
鈥淲e live in a nuclear-powered universe. We鈥檙e the oddballs by getting energy from burning carbon.鈥�
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James Lovelock, originator of the Gaia hypothesis, backing his argument that nuclear power will solve the world鈥檚 energy problems (The New York Times, 12 September)
鈥淏abies are squeezed very hard during labour. It may be something like wringing out a cloth.鈥�
Belinda Phillips of the UK鈥檚 National Childbirth Trust on the finding that babies delivered by elective Caesarean are more likely to have problems with their lungs and are three times as likely to die in the 28 days following birth as those delivered naturally (The Times, London, 7 September)
鈥淚t may be some sort of retribution, or it just may be yet another callous act toward wildlife.鈥�
Michael Hornby of Steve Irwin鈥檚 Wildlife Warriors conservation group, expressing fears that 10 stingrays had been killed to avenge Irwin鈥檚 death (Associated Press, 12 September)
鈥淲e鈥檙e just as amazed as everyone else that the spacecraft is still in great condition and still operating so beautifully.鈥�
Bruce Barendt of NASA on the Mars rover Opportunity, which is rolling along 2陆 years after it landed on the Red Planet for a three-month mission (The San Francisco Chronicle, 8 September)