Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are

You have to know the past to understand the present.

I believe many of you are aware of the use of modern biotechnology in the fields of medicine, agriculture, mining and energy as well as industry.