Assume Quote by James D. Watson

For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before.

— Hilary Mantel

Men want children later, but women can't rely on being able to. So I'm all for scientific advances and the help they can give…

— Mariella Frostrup

If Nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with the stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with…

— Adolf Hitler

“That is the flip side, you see, to laissez-faire parenting. It succeeds or not, throughout the animal kingdom as it does with humans, in…

— Cynthia Rogers Parks

“Young people seldom turn out as one predicts, so it is of little use to expect anything,' said Mrs. Meg with a sigh. 'If…

— Louisa May Alcott

The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we go too far down the road of choosing the genetic traits of children, my worry is that parenting will be less a…

— Michael Sandel

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“We all say we want our kids to be happy, only happy, and healthy, but we don't want that. We want them to be…

— Hanya Yanagihara

Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not…

— Gina Maranto

For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to…

— Bob Barr

When a generation watches the young ones, their future, their responsibility, grow up, and when what they are to inherit is pitiful and so…

— Doris Lessing