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“Eleven would have been the best time. Eleven is just about the best age for almost everything.”

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Zilpha Keatley Snyder was an American author of children's literature, renowned for her unique imagination and profound insight. Her works spanned a variety of styles, from fantasy to realism, and were greatly beloved by readers. more

“I see nothing wrong ethically with the idea of correcting single gene defects through genetic engineering. But I am concerned about any other kind of intervention, for anything else would be an experiment, which would impose our will on future generations and take unreasonable chances with their welfare ... Thus such intervention is beyond the scope of consideration.”

Kind Ideas Would Be Chance Generations Concerned Experiments Welfare Consideration Genes Engineering Defects Scope Intervention Future Generation Unreasonable Correcting Genetic Engineering

Author:Ian Wilmut

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

People Difficult Greater Imagine Generations Genes Future Generation Imposition Genetic Engineering

Author:Ian Wilmut

“Renegade scientists and totalitarian loonies are not the folks most likely to abuse genetic engineering. You and I are-not because we are bad but because we want to do good. In a world dominated by competition, parents understandably want to give their kids every advantage. ... The most likely way for eugenics to enter into our lives is through the front door as nervous parents ... will fall over one another to be first to give Junior a better set of genes.”

“The pressures for human cloning are powerful; but, although it seems likely that somebody, at some time, will attempt it, we need not assume that it will ever become a common or significant feature of human life.”

Needs Humans Seems Powerful Common Pressure Assuming Significant Human Life Features Genetic Engineering Cloning Human Cloning

Book:The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control

Source: The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control

“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. If you wait, five years from now the gene doctor will be hanging out the MAKE A SMARTER BABY sign down the street.”

Ifs Years School Waiting Church Five Streets Baby Doctors Debate Magazines Five Years Hanging Out Genes Engineering Smarter Genetic Engineering

Author:Arthur Caplan

“Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, of the machine-time, of all which raise the manufacturer's cost and price that the purchaser must pay”

Problem Pay Quality Plans Materials Cost Waste Machines Raises Management Manpower Purchasers

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.”

Quality Huge Mere Allocation

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“It is not enough to simply "do your best". You must strive for perfection.”

Enough Quality Perfection Strive

Author:Subir Chowdhury

“Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement.”

Needs Light Sides Enlightenment Shadow Embrace Chemicals Enhancement Shadow Side

Author:Kyan Douglas

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