 Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit. |
| The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics. |
| Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects. |
| In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman. |
| Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion. |
| Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman. |
| The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether. |
| The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good. |
| Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes. |
| I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful. |
| An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems. |
| My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes. |
| Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity. |
| Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries. |
| Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture. |
| We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing. |
| Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe. |
| The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated. |
| We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice. |
| It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country. |
