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No one really has the guts to say it, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why…

— Gregory Stock

Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether you want…

— Robert Winston

I see worries in the fact that we have the power to manipulate genes in ways that would be improbable or impossible through conventional…

— Colin Blakemore

It is difficult to imagine a greater imposition than adding genes to future generations that changes the nature of future people.

— Ian Wilmut

Surely, if we are going to be better at producing food of the right value, then we have to accept that genetic technology... is…

— Princess Anne

What you see in living systems, and in genetic systems, is that the genes are already there, having arisen in the course of time,…

— Jonas Salk

Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.

— Richard Dawkins

Human beings are just gene machines.

— Richard Dawkins

Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will…

— Robert Winston

I do think... gene technology has got real benefits to offer, which will have maybe an occasional downside, but I suspect not very many.

— Princess Anne

Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives-of course we must, right? But are these good things to do? The irony…

— Roger Ebert

Just as computer technology and the Internet created whole new industries and extraordinary benefits for people that extend into almost every realm of human…

— Anne Wojcicki