鈥淪cience is a gift of God to all of us and science has taken us to a place that is biblical in its power to cure.鈥�
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, arguing for a bill to ease restrictions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research (The New York Times, 8 June)
鈥淩ecent scientific developments have reinforced my conviction that stem cell science can progress in ethical ways.鈥�
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President George Bush, who has pledged to veto the House of Representatives鈥� bill on embryonic stem cell research on the basis that amniotic or adult stem cells could be used instead (The New York Times, 8 June)
鈥淚t was a very evangelical meeting. Others who were there said it was like a Billy Graham sermon.鈥�
Tim Worner, who runs a UK multiple sclerosis support group, on a presentation by charity Proventus lobbying for greater access to an unlicensed MS treatment called Aimspro, derived from goat serum containing killed HIV virus (The Guardian, London, 11 June)
鈥淎n act of sabotage, against tourism, against research.鈥�
Paulin Ngobobo of the Congolese Institute for the Conservation of Nature on the apparent killing of a female mountain gorilla in the Virunga nature reserve by a local rebel group, which conservationists fear is targeting the gorillas (AFP, 10 June)
鈥淚t鈥檚 great for people who otherwise might have sat around all night waiting to see a moonbow.鈥�
Don Olson of Texas State University, who has created a computer model to predict the precise date and time of moonbows, which form when a full moon鈥檚 rays hit rain or the mist of a waterfall (San Francisco Chronicle, 3 June)