There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes. — Leon Kass Copy Share
I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful. — Leon Kass Copy Share
Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal. — Leon Kass Copy Share
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing. — Leon Kass Copy Share
The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life. — Leon Kass Copy Share
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows. — Leon Kass Copy Share
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture. — Leon Kass Copy Share
Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. — Leon Kass Copy Share
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. — Leon Kass Copy Share
It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants. — Leon Kass Copy Share
My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he… — Leon Kass Copy Share
In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one. — Leon Kass Copy Share
There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated. — Leon Kass Copy Share
