In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals – Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine – which set the agenda. – Michael Pollan
In corn, I think Ive found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonalds meal, virtually all the carbon in it – and what we eat is mostly carbon – comes from corn. – Michael Pollan
I mean, were really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification. – Michael Pollan
Every major food company now has an organic division. Theres more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before. – Michael Pollan
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and 60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies. – Fareed Zakaria
My sense of religion is Einsteins sense of relativity. I dont believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus. – Mandy Patinkin