Change Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a…

— Anonymous

“As we’re about to see, by striving for even greater genetic perfection we might be eliminating a lot more than just millions of people…

— Sharon Moalem

“The increasing fascination with and funding of genetic technology is simply another medical dead end, another reductionist rabbit hole that will lead us no…

— T. Colin Campbell

We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in…

— Olympia Snowe

Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

The time to talk about it [genetic engineering to improve a baby's genes] in schools and churches and magazines and debate societies is now.…

— Arthur Caplan

“Every genetic “illness” is a mismatch between an organism’s genome and its environment. In some cases, the appropriate medical intervention to mitigate a disease…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Everyone endeavours to eliminate through the other individual his own weaknesses, defects, and deviations from the type, lest they be perpetuated or even grow…

— Alain de Botton

Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that…

— Margaret Sanger

We’re still getting a lot of the popular conception that’s grounded in the one-way, causal image of the genome. The idea that the future…

— John Dupre

“Even the best inborn potentialities for achievement do not render unnecessary patient and persistent practice.”

— Ralph Alfred Habas

“The right to health care provides insurance against the misfortune of having bad genes.”

— Jean Tirole