Robert Edwards Quotes
- Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world…
- My first ideas of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) arose with my Ph.D. in Edinburgh University in the early 1950s. Supervised by Alan Beatty, my…
- Increasingly committed to human studies, I sought to collect several immature human oocytes from pieces of excised ovarian tissue, mature and fertilize them in vitro…
- My genetic interests persist in the area of the control of human development. Something must be fundamentally flawed with a reproductive system that allows only…
- It struck me what we should be trying to do was pluck the egg from the ovary and fertilise it in the laboratory. We could…
- I wanted to find out exactly who was in charge, whether it was God Himself or whether it was scientists in the laboratory. It was…
- The most important thing in life is having a child. Nothing is more special than a child.