When we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up. Having been brought up among the biologists and having followed various debates about ways to improve the human template and other debates about the true nature of our nature, I began seriously to wonder: What if? We hold in our hands a tool that is more powerful - for good or ill - than any we have wielded before.
Margaret AtwoodScience is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.
Margaret AtwoodTime is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
Margaret AtwoodI doubt that Canada will be seen forever on the international stage as Mr/s Boring Niceperson, as has been the habit.
Margaret Atwood