Agriculture can trigger job-led economic growth, provided it becomes intellectually satisfying and economically rewarding.

The future of food security will depend on a combination of the ecological prudence of the past and the technological advances of today.

Leadership is something which other people have to recognize. You cannot demand that I am a leader.

To ensure food security for all, we should be clear about the definition of the problem, the precise index of measuring impact and the road map to achieve the goal.

For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.

I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.

Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way.

All at once, funding was gone due to the Mansfield Amendment, which was a reaction to the Vietnam War. In the minds of the local RLE administrators, research in gravitation and cosmology was not in the military's interest, and support was given to solid-state physics, which was deemed more relevant.