Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.

Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.

Reality shows are usually created by people doing and saying stupid things.

I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work.

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.

Creating music fulfills me. It gives me purpose. It connects me with the world.

I play the piano. I bought an upright piano that is actually electric, so I can practice my scales with headphones on and not make my neighbours' lives hell!

The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.

At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.