All Leon Kass Quotes
- We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice. Choice
- The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics. Absolutely
- The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated. Appreciated
- The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal. Animal
- The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right. Called
- The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good. Ethics
- There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given. Ancient
- We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation. Came
- We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture. Culture
- We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years. Inspirational
- Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder Forgotten
- There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies. Babies
- The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether. Abortion
- Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or… Celebrity
- My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes. Consideration
- In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one. Asexual
- But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When you see what… Albatross
- In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman. Abortion
- Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children. Children
- We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing. Engineering