We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

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.

Our conduct has a direct influence on how people think about the gospel. The world doesn't judge us by our theology

It's just us, right?'Hannah walks to her. She touches her cheek and finds her eyes. There is a desperate light hanging on her pupils. A flicker of passion, a flicker of shame.'It's just us.

I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.

I lost my brother when he was 30, and that was devastating for me. I don't know if I will ever get over it.

I know it sounds corny, but I’d love to improve people’s lives, especially socially… Making the world more open is not an overnight thing. It’s a ten-to-fifteen-year thing.

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.

I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

I hate being tickled. Sure, it makes me laugh, but when I get tickled, I get pissed off. I'm like a monkey when I get tickled - woo-hoo!

At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes; they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing.

Loneliness is equal to the radius of one's awareness.