“I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environmental remediation and perhaps...”

“The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.”

“Life is a DNA software system.”

“Creating life at the speed of light is part of a new industrial revolution. Manufacturing will shift from centralised factories to...”

“Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the...”

“Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature.”

“On the death of his brothers, my dad lied about his age and joined the army in 1918. He was in the trenches long enough to be gass...”

“I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel...”

“A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and disc...”

“The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.”

“I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. T...”

“Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and...”