You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.

I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.

It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get repeated publicity.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.

A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.

My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.

The cosmos does not require God, Laplace said to himself. But Emperors require Him. All those who seek to subjugate human beings in one form or another require Him. Science does not need God.

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of a life.

If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn't involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head.

I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.

I saw the yearbook picture. There was six of them! I ain't have six friends in high school, I don't have six friends now! That's three on three with a half court.

I’d rather die than you not be by my side.

And when I say craziest, I mean, like, I want to do like Olympic-level things.

All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.

Conflict tip: What comes out of someone else's mouth is a reflection of their heart ... not yours.

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.