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

People, Engineering, May, Talking

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

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"In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one."

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"Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering."

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"Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture."

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"We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture."

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"The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right."

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"As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own."

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"Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries."

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"Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children."

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"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

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Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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