Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

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I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the...

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the...

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before...

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before...

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve...

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve...

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important...

The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important...

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less...

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less...

We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests...

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests...

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if...

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if...

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50...

We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50...

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own...

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own...

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward...

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward...

It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an...

It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an...

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking...

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking...

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it...

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it...

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that...

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that...