All Leon Kass Quotes
- If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts. Cloning
- Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture. Clear
- Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows. Brain
- Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal. Already Banned
- Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments. Accomplishment
- It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country. Country
- Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes. Changes
- Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe. Advance
- One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking… Caution
- There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated. Advances
- We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it. Folly
- What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish? Flourish