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Famous Leon Kass Quotes
“Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.”
“Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.”
“If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.”
“Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.”
“Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.”
“Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.”
“I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.”
“I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.”
“I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.”
“The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.”
“We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.”
“The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.”
“The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.”
“The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.”
“We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.”
“We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years.”
“Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder”
“There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.”