3 Norman Borlaug Quotes on Science

Norman Borlaug quotes on science

5. 'Producing food for 6.2 billion people, adding a population of 80 million more a year, is not simple. We better develop an ever improved science and technology, including the new biotechnology, to produce the food that's needed for the world today.' In response to the fraction of the world population that could be fed if current farmland was convered to organic-only crops: 'We are 6.6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion. I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear.' In response to extreme critics: 'These are utopian that live on Cloud 9 and come into the third world and cause all kinds of confusion and negative impacts on the developing countries.'

11. 'It is very likely that Dr. Borlaug is directly responsible for saving more lives than anyone else in the twentieth century... Dr. Borlaug has never stopped fighting, teaching, inventing, or caring... The world owes Dr. Borlaug endless amounts of gratitude'

17. ''The battle to feed all of humanity is over,' biologist Paul Ehrlich famously wrote in his 1968 bestseller The Population Bomb ... But Borlaug and his team were already engaged in the kind of crash program that Ehrlich declared wouldn't work. Their dwarf wheat varieties resisted a wide spectrum of plant pests and diseases and produced two to three times more grain than the traditional varieties ... Borlaug, who unfortunately is far less well-known than doomsayer Ehrlich, is responsible for much of the progress humanity has made against hunger.'