There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given. — 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 Image
I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
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 Image
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
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 Image
