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


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


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


"It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters."


"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."


"Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries."
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"You are all misleading one another, and are yourselves deceived. The sun does not go round the earth, but the earth goes round the sun, revolving as it goes, and turning towards the sun in the course of each twenty-four hours, not only Japan, and the Philippines, and Sumatra where we now are, but Africa, and Europe, and America, and many lands besides. The sun does not shine for some one mountain, or for some one island, or for some one sea, nor even for one earth alone, but for other planets as well as our earth. If you would only look up at the heavens, instead of at the ground beneath your own feet, you might all understand this, and would then no longer suppose that the sun shines for you, or for your country alone."

"As the wireless radiation industry continues to drastically increase the number of transmitters, electromagnetic researchers are documenting the range of new adverse health conditions that are emerging in the masses."

"I know of no significant advance in science that did not require major inputs from both cerebral hemispheres. This is not true for art, where apparently there are no experiments by which capable, dedicated and unbiased observers can determine to their mutual satisfaction which works are great."

"Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science."

"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat."

"The disruption of science is one which abandons the method and seeks to conquer grounds outside its territory. It is not at all religion but this pseudo-science that is the enemy of science."
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