"There are a lot of things we haven't heard of that the industry is doing."
- Mike Doyle, director, Center for Food Safety, University of Georgia, in an interview with National Public Radio on "tuna scrape."

"...the human ability to innovate gets slapped down by nature."
James C. Cobb, history professor at the University of Georgia, on the sinking of the Titanic.

 "Congress also should require oceangoing research ships to be stationed full time in the Gulf and other drilling locations."
-  Samantha Joye, marine scientist at the University of Georgia, as quoted in the New Orleans Times-Picayune online edition, regarding an article she contributed to that was published April 12, 2012 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.


(pictured at left: Red starfish cling to oil-coated coral damaged by Gulf oil spill in October 2010; photo courtesy NOAA and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, via The Associated Press.)

"You can sit there and watch all the students stop by and hang out with the goats."
-  Zach Richardson, student, landscape architecture, University of Georgia, on goats enlisted to eat invasive plants on campus.

"Ultimately it isn't about science, but the motives of North Korea." 
- Han Park, Department of International Affairs, University Of Georgia, on a rocket launch by the isolated nation that could be used for a satellite or long-range missile.

“What’s surprising to me is that they didn’t find more." 

- Mike Doyle, director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia, on the level of e. coli  found in raw packaged chicken.