The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

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.

The human spirit carries a torch called hope.

I look away so that my eyes don't betray the hurt I feel

Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.

Trying to prove something to someone is never a valid reason for doing anything.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

Don't let regrets about the past or worries about the future rob you of your enjoyment of the present.

When the Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels, who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar.

You must follow Jesus for yourself, but you can’t follow Him by yourself.

The matter of social security and these grants is to help to address the levels of poverty in the country.