“Galileo saw nature as a book whose author is God.”

Pope Benedict has been telling a meeting of scientists there is “no opposition between faith’s understanding of creation and the evidence of the empirical sciences” (Reuters).

“It obviously wasn’t my intent that it would be copied word for word.”

John Miller, a physics professor at the University of Houston, comments in the Houston Chronicle on allegations that one of his grant proposals was plagiarised by a researcher at Texas Southern University.

“All credit to them for not sitting on their hands.”

Geologist John Underhill commends researchers who voted on the likely causes of a controversial mud volcano in Indonesia. Of 74 scientists, 42 blamed drilling for oil, 16 thought evidence was inconclusive, 13 blamed a combination of drilling and an earthquake, and three blamed the earthquake alone (BBC).

“I’ve gone on record as saying that I am personally standing behind delivering the cars.”

Paypal billionaire Elon Musk moves to quash rumours of problems at his electric car company Tesla (Reuters).