鈥淚f that barb had been half an inch or an inch to one side, then he鈥檇 be saying, 鈥楥rikey鈥�.鈥�
Les Peel, pastor of a church in Beerwah, Queensland, on the death by stingray barb of Australian conservationist and 鈥渃rocodile hunter鈥� Steve Irwin (Sydney Morning Herald, 4 September)
鈥淭here鈥檚 a controversy in the United States because there is a lack of awareness of a thing called philosophy.鈥�
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Joseph Fessio, provost of Ave Maria University in Florida, on the 鈥渃reationism problem鈥� in the US; his Ignatius Press publishes Pope Benedict XVI鈥檚 books in English (Reuters, 4 September)
鈥淚 can understand the frustration and the anger and, most importantly, the concern about their future. I can鈥檛 blame them for thinking, 鈥榃here were you when we needed you?'鈥�
John Howard, appointed by the Bush administration to coordinate the government鈥檚 9/11 health efforts, on the delays and failures to deliver assistance to recovery workers made sick at ground zero (The New York Times, 5 September)
鈥淪tudents should shout at the president and ask why liberal and secular university lecturers are present in the universities.鈥�
Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calling for a return to the radicalism of the 1980s (Associated Press, 5 September)
鈥淚 don鈥檛 think we are going to evolve a rational mind 鈥� there are benefits to being irrational.鈥�
Bruce Hood, professor of experimental psychology at the University of Bristol, UK, on how superstition has an evolutionary basis (The Times, London, 5 September)