If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

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.

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

Words make the intangible aspects of human experience communicable, and a single sentence can shatter our world view and assist us in the formulation of a new one.

If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

I've seen my performances. I don't like them.

Once you become famous, being single becomes a liability.

There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.

To succeed in baseball, as in life, you must make adjustments.

In order to be one of the greats, you've got to study the greats.

If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself.