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

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

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.

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

...while social analysis must always be part of curriculum development and teaching, education policy and practice needs to be protected against the dangers of fads, obsessions and moral panics.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Build Icebergs, Not Skyscrapers

Autocorrect: making Twitter pedants delete and re-tweet since 2007.

I'm married - I've caught my limit.

I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be.

I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little drip of mud and grit at a time.

Romance is the poetry of literature.

Doing the right thing is fun. If nothing else, it surprises people.

You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness.