“An awful lot of food is thrown away. This you can call a spillover. It...” — John Sulston Quote

“An awful lot of food is thrown away. This you can call a spillover. It doesn't sort of enter into our economic system because it's a consequence of running things in a highly competitive way: the free market, global pricing and so on.”

“I wandered along to the chemistry labs, more or less on the rebound, and asked about becoming a research student. It was the '60s, a time of university expansion: the doors were open, and a 2:1 was good enough to get me in.”

“What is the purpose of being human and alive without doing new things?”

“There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg.”

“Hate is awful.”

“While anti-depressants can work for some people, I became a little too reliant on them - if you forget to take one, you feel awful.”