We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

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.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

When you lose everything, you are free. You become a receiver.

Life it too short to deal with crazy people.

Excellence in any pursuit is the late ripe fruit of toil.

Australia is so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God

Our identity is not in our joy, and our identity is not in our suffering. Our identity is in Christ, whether we have joy or are suffering.

When I follow my heart, usually the results are good.

Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.

Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.