Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

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.

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

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.

It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.

Beware of fascist feminism.

But freedom starts with honesty. We aren’t doing ourselves any favors by defining our- selves as good and others as bad. Let’s just agree that we all need help, that we are all in this together.

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

Geniuses are justifiably contemptuous of the opinions of their inferiors.

I know a doctor who can give you a shot and you'll get over that cold you've got and get better in a day.

Business only has two functions - innovation and marketing.

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?