We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?"

This a change in legal structure. It is in no way a move from community banking. ... We'll still be as focused on our communities and our customers as we've ever been. Hopefully. we'll be able to serve them even better.

Emissions from Australia and United States are spiraling out of control. We need rapid deployment of clean energy such as wind and solar today. If the conference just throws research dollars to the coal industry to clean up their act in 15 to 20 years, we've missed an opportunity.

Despite its many critics, hydraulic fracturing will change the nature of energy production.