However pragmatic you are, it is very demanding being a new parent.

Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether you want to enhance a human, and the next generation is going to have to deal with that issue. Should we be trying to enhance humans rather than trying to educate them and so on?

When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university.

I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.

By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.

I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they really are, and I think one of the issues about our society is that we make judgments about people on the basis of very flimsy evidence.

You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.