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

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

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

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

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

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.