"I see nothing wrong ethically with the idea of correcting single gene defects through genetic engineering. But I am concerned about any other kind of intervention, for anything else would be an experiment, which would impose our will on future generations and take unreasonable chances with their welfare ... Thus such intervention is beyond the scope of consideration."

-- Ian Wilmut

#Engineering Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Any idiot can train himself into the ground; the trick is working in training to get gradually stronger.”
“I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.”
“The Lord doesn't want anybody in His house who has to be dragged there.”
“I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker.”
“Martin Luther King really was a safety valve for white people. Any time it appeared that the black community was on the verge of really doing what we ought to do based on having been attacked, they put Martin Luther King on television. He was always saying, "We must use nonviolence. We must overcome hate with love." White people loved that. That's why they gave him a Nobel Prize. But when Martin Luther King started condemning the Vietnam War, that's when white people turned against him.”

Source : "The Maverick of Omaha". Interview With Michael Beckel, www.motherjones.com. January 5, 2006.
“Geoff Nelder inhabits Science Fiction the way other people inhabit their clothes.”
“Family can replace everything. So, before starting a family, one should think what's more important: family or everything.”
“The outflow that comes from giving of oneself opens the door to spiritual unfoldment while the attitude of taking locks it.”

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