One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

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.

Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality

A house may draw visitors but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.

I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.

In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.

It's good not to be the only girl in the fight for once.

I go down to Newport and Huntington a lot. It's more crowded than where I grew up on Phillip Island, but I think it's helped me adjust to life in America - getting into the water as much as I can.

Do we dare to be ourselves?' This is the question that counts - and not, 'Must a man be helpless?' ...A man can do something for peace without having to jump into politics.

And I have stopped eating tuna until the tuna nets cease killing tens of thousands of dolphins every single year.

We have no plans to increase tax at all.