Science at that time was looking at fragmented pieces of a big picture. Scientists were looking at technologies to increase crop yields. The science behind agriculture was focused on that piece of the picture.

As science becomes more specialized, it becomes harder for scientists to check each other, which makes it easier to get away with fraud.

Clearly, there's tremendous untapped potential among the world's scientists to address diseases of the developing world.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken', and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen

Too many lawyers really lacked an understanding of too many areas of science, and too few scientists really understood the workings of the legal system.

Scientists face a challenge in forging constructive relations with a public that at times seems hostile to science and the scientific mindset.