鈥淚n India we see four people travelling by motorbike. I thought they could travel more safely by car.鈥�
Indian industrialist Ratan Tata on why his company launched the Nano car, the world鈥檚 cheapest, costing under $2000 (The Guardian, London, 24 March)
鈥淔ish don鈥檛 try to turn sharks into vegetarians. They learn to live with sharks.鈥�
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Duke University marine ecologist Raphael Sagarin, co-author of a book launched this week arguing that terrorism should be fought using evolutionary strategies other species use to survive predators (Global Security Newswire, 23 March)
鈥淲e established there was a demand for execution vehicles. This procedure is a must.鈥�
A Mr Zhang (who refused to state his given name) of Chinese company Jinguan Auto justifies the production of specially equipped vehicles in which condemned prisoners can be put to death by lethal injection (The Independent, London, 24 March)
鈥淲e contribute less to R&D than the pet food industry鈥�
Jeffrey Byron of the California Energy Commission comments on the dearth of spending on energy research in the US for projects like a smart electricity grid, a problem that the Obama administration wants to spend billions of dollars to fix (Wired, 23 March)
鈥淚 became fascinated by animals with strange morphologies that make you wonder how in the world they could possibly have mated.鈥�
Douglas Emlen of the University of Montana, who has just published a review of research into sexual selection, explains what drove him to study why animals evolve unwieldy weapons (The New York Times, 24 March)