鈥淵ou could perceive that they鈥檙e saying this out of a real lack of understanding, or you could say that they鈥檙e doing it to ratchet up tension.鈥�
Stephen Minger of King鈥檚 College London, on church leaders in the UK using their Easter sermons to condemn legislation allowing the use of hybrid human-animal embryos for research (The Guardian, London, 25 March)
I鈥檝e seen people die and die and die. The only discharge you get from this place is to the mortuary.
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Siyasanga Lukas, a 20-year-old TB patient at the Jose Pearson TB hospital in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, on how patients are kept behind electrified razor-wire fences to keep them from infecting others (The New York Times, 25 March)
You drink, therefore you publish less. Or those who are already unsuccessful as scientists may drink more to forget.
Tom谩拧 Grim of Palack媒 University in Olomouc, Czech Republic, on his finding that the more beer a scientist drinks, the less likely they are to publish or be cited by others (The Prague Post, 19 March)
鈥淗er death is on this nation鈥檚 conscience because we deported her when it was against every humanitarian instinct to do so.鈥�
The Archbishop of Wales, Barry Morgan, on the death of Ghanaian woman Ana Sumani, who had been receiving treatment for cancer at a UK hospital until she was deported two months ago (The Times, London, 21 March)
鈥淗e was always thinking about what could come next, but also about how life could be improved in the future. It鈥檚 a vision that I think we could use more of today.鈥�
George Whitesides of the US National Space Society on Arthur C. Clarke, who died on 19 March, aged 90 (BBC Online, 19 March)