"It is not possible to think of a way of screening out effectively the most appropriate embryos, and hence, what we should expect would be late abortions -- either occurring spontaneously or being induced deliberately in the second or third trimester of pregnancy -- in order to prevent the birth of abnormal children."

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Source : "Scientists blast human cloning plans". www.cnn.com. August 8, 2001.

Ian Wilmut

#Children Quotes #Pregnancy Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he knows not where to choose the most impressive argument. When the mark is shrouded in obscurity, the only substitute for accuracy in the aim is in the multitude of the shafts.”
“Do you wanna leave soon? No, I want enough time to be in love with everything... And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.”

Source : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
“That's the only thing that matters, honey, for someone to see more in you than you thought there was to see.”
“The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that was the end Permian extinction, where climate change caused in part by mega-volcanic eruptions wiped out ninety-five percent of life on Earth. It took about ten or twenty million years for the planet's ecosystems to stabilize. During that time you saw a lot of weird, out-of-balance ecosystems where, for example, crocodile-like predators ripped the crap out of each other along the coasts.”
“That means that the universe is two-dimensional. Matter, energy, time, you, me and the floor are holograms.”
“There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game.”

Source : "Beyond a Boundary". Book by C. L. R. James, 1963.
“[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same Russians that my uncles had fought alongside only a few years earlier. Now they had become monsters who were coming to slit our throats and incinerate us. It seemed peculiar. Living under a cloud of fear like this robs a child of his spirit. It's one thing to be afraid when someone's holding a shotgun on you, but it's another thing to be afraid of something that's just not quite real.”
“Always embrace the common humanity that lies at the heart of us all.”

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