Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.
Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
That is why it is so important not only to have excellent treatment but also to try to get back the immune defense, because there you have a natural defense that takes place everywhere.
Master Chekhov says Man is what he believes. From here we conclude that when Man believes in a crap, Man becomes a crap!
It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.
Then, after I came home from Europe, I found I was under condemnation; and I was condemned at that time because I did not endorse the financial policy of the General Conference.
I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.
Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.
Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is!
I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character.
Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or to run errands as often as you can - in other words, think of walking as alternative transportation.
There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.
For all of life's discontents, according to the pharmaceutical industry, there is a drug and you should take it. Then for the side effects of that drug, then there's another drug, and so on. So we're all taking more drugs, and more expensive drugs.
