鈥淭he only place where this alleged climate catastrophe is happening is in the virtual world of computer models.鈥�
Mark Morano, spokesman on environmental issues for Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma. Morano is due to speak at a meeting of climate sceptics in New York, focusing on 鈥淕lobal warming: Was it ever a crisis?鈥� (The New York Times, 8 March)
鈥淭he science fiction writers are going to be challenged to imagine the diversity that we could expect to find.鈥�
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Debra Fischer of San Francisco State University comments on the capabilities of the Kepler space telescope, which NASA launched on 6 March to seek out Earth-like alien planets (FoxNews.com, 6 March)
鈥淭hese products have no real detoxification effects.鈥�
Edzard Ernst, professor of complementary medicine at the Peninsula Medical School in Exeter, UK, criticising a 鈥渄etox鈥� artichoke and dandelion tincture launched by Prince Charles鈥檚 company Duchy Originals (BBC News Online, 10 March)
鈥淚t behaves like some live object. It moves. It crashes onto free-floating particles and absorbs them.鈥�
Alex Snezhko, a physicist at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, who has discovered that nickel particles can be made to self-assemble into a moving, snake-like structure. He hopes to shed light on how life arose from the primordial soup (Wired.com, 5 March)
鈥淢y initial thought, when I was half awake, was: it鈥檚 a lunatic ninja coming through the window.鈥�
Beat Ettlin of Canberra, Australia, on how it felt when a kangaroo came crashing through his bedroom window onto his bed. He wrestled the bleeding animal and dragged it out the door (Reuters, 9 March)