鈥淗ealthy debate is so important and valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both.鈥�
Sarah Palin, who was this week selected as Republican candidate for US vice-president, talking two years ago about whether intelligent design should be taught in schools alongside evolution (Anchorage Daily News, Alaska, 27 October 2006)
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Meteorologist Jessica Schauer Clark at the US National Hurricane Center on hurricane Hanna, which brought strong winds, heavy rain and pounding surf to the Caribbean and was expected to hit the south-eastern US this week (Associated Press, 2 September)
鈥淲e wanted to convey the sense that evolution can bring up a surprising diversity of weird, interesting, strange things.鈥�
Game creator Will Wright on his latest game Spore, released this week by Electronic Arts. Play evolves from controlling a single-celled microbe to a tribe striving for galactic domination (The New York Times, 2 September)
鈥淏efore we start geo-engineering, we have to raise the question: are we sufficiently talented?鈥�
James Lovelock, originator of the Gaia hypothesis that Earth is self-regulating, likening those who want to modify the climate to ignorant 19th-century doctors (The Guardian, London, 1 September)
鈥淚t is best to aim a bit forward of the fly鈥檚 starting position, to anticipate where it is going to jump.鈥�
Michael Dickinson of the California Institute of Technology, who led a study on how to swat flies (The Times, London, 29 August)