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

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder

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

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

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.

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