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Nina Fedoroff is an esteemed professor born in 1942. She is a prominent geneticist and molecular biologist, as well as an active science communicator and public intellectual. Her research in genetics and molecular biology has had a significant impact on the global promotion of biotechnology.

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“For me science is not different from art, except in the one small, crucial detail that experiments speak their own truths, not ours.”

Art Different Speak Details Experiments Crucial

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“There are probably already too many people on the planet.”

People Planets Climate Change Global Warming

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.”

People Needs Growth Support Planets Rate Population Elites Reducing Decrease Population Growth Population Control Population Explosion

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century', and yet that's what we're demanding in food production.”

People Thinking Way Century Doctors Treats Productions Treated 19th Century Food Production

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better.”

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.”

Ifs Ends Environmental Refugee Doorstep

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.”

Ifs Earth Half Support Population Currents Farming Organic Farming

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“Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.”

Ability Technology Produce Depends Civilization Thanks Expanding Science And Technology

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.”

Knows Government Know How Position Scientist Overcoming

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.”

Way Able Lasts Century Evolution Genes

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.”

Country Opportunity Leader India Institutions Engineering Other Countries Genetic Engineering

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.”

Influence Advice Ears Adviser

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.”

Needs Weed Multiple Herbicides

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain.”

People World Animal Around The World Diets Yield Crops Protein Robust Affluent

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture - from using more fertilizers to mechanization to advanced plant breeding.”

Kind Three Race Events Six Plant Population Billions All Kinds Agriculture Technological Breeding Fertilizer Mechanization

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that's because genomes can change, and people working with plants have picked mutations. Mutations are nothing more than genetic changes.”

People Taken Wonderful Source Plant Agriculture Mutation Genome Genetic Mutation

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as many food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We're now realizing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate.”

World Needs Energy Realizing Waste Climate Ships Around The World Calories

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall.”

Knows Fall Example Fundamentals Familiar Agents Evolve Indian Genes Organisms Jumping Corn Stripes

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.”

Has Beens Environment Effects Consequence Concern Myth Unexpected Scrutiny Benign Genetically Modified Genetically Modified Food

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.”

Way Protect Disease Method Add Plant Capability Genes Crops Benign Pests

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi.”

Example Aspect Broads Chemicals Engineering Insects Beneficial Spectrum Methodology Genetic Engineering Fungi Pests

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a lot of radiation, which causes DNA damage, which gets repaired, but results in mutations, which create a ready mixture of plants that people can choose from to improve agriculture.”

People Causes Results Planets Ready Evolution Bases Plant Damage Radiation Agriculture Dna Things Change Mixtures Our Planet Modification Mutation Genetically Modified Genetic Mutation

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started on issues such as climate change or genetically modified organisms.”

Littles Seems Difficult Can Do Dark Issues Conversation Climate Climate Change Eras Realistic Organisms Genetically Modified

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds get carried. Sometimes, if they're very small seeds, they get scattered off trucks. Pollen travels.”

Ifs Years Long Sometimes Periods Seeds Truck Crops Long Periods Of Time Pollen

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops.”

People Needs Use Grows Water Half Planets Six Seven Billions Crops Inventiveness

Author:Nina Fedoroff

“We've gotten so good at growing food that we've gone, in a few generations, from nearly half of Americans living on farms to 2 percent. We no longer think about how the wonderful things in the grocery store got there, and we'd like to go back to what we think is a more natural way.”

Thinking Way Natural Half Gone Growing Wonderful Generations Percent Stores Farms Wonderful Things Groceries Living On Grocery Stores Growing Food

Author:Nina Fedoroff

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Born: 1942
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