“The first statement we said to each other was, how did he get through the system? How do they

“The first statement we said to each other was, how did he get through the system? How do they know somebody’s background, especially that young? It is disturbing, to say the least.”

David Franz

Who lives two houses away from where a Wisconsin deputy sheriff killed six young people in a shooting rampage before he was shot to death by police.

“He sounded very serious, so the first reaction was, ‘This must be real.’”

Mario R. Capecchi

On his reaction to hearing that he was one of three scientists to win the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine.