We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

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.

unrequited love is the most selfless love.

One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.

Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.

I would rather raise certain topics and maybe let you ruminate on them. I'm not big on answering them.

In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!

Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.

I pay a lot of attention to whitespace. I pay a lot of attention to the rhythm of words together.

The media have literally no negative effect on Donald Trump. No matter what he says, no matter how he says what he says, no matter what he does, it gets covered.

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

The savings bank of human existence is the weekly Sabbath.