"Anybody who objects to cloning on principle has to answer to all the identical twins in the world who might be insulted by the thought that there is something offensive about their very existence. Clones are simply identical twins."

-- Richard Dawkins

#Cloning Quotes #Answers Quotes #World Quotes

“Our Higher Self is the most intimate thing we could possibly know; eternity is the most comfortable home we could possibly fine.”
“[C]ouches and chairs covered in scratches aim away from one another, making it possible for a dozen people to sit in this room at once and not have to talk to one other person, which is a miracle in furniture arrangement.”
“I quitted my Seat in the House of Delegates, from a Conviction that I was no longer able to do any essential Service.”
“The poor are not a problem but rather an opportunity to show unconditional love.”
“Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't making enough of an effort to reconcile the contradictions of life. All you get is sweet monotonous flow. Writer's block is nothing to commit suicide over. It simply indicates some imbalance between your experience and your art, and I think that's constructive.”
“the battle's in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down, if you said you'd rather love than fight.”
“I, a woman, find wearing high heels agreeable only on the very rare occasion that (1) I will be ferried between destinations upon a palanquin or (2) I am going to a cocktail party and, at five feet two, don't want to spend the evening discussing the latest movies with somebody's nipples.”

Source : "Sole Mate" by Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.
“Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that.”

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