15 Quotes by Ian Wilmut

We would welcome any rules for an international agreement of any kind to prohibit this work. I think you shouldn't underestimate the difficulties of this research,

I am sure that they did make good steps forward and derive cell lines.

It is a key component of the international effort to co-operate in research rather than compete,

Successful cloning of an increasing number of species confirms the general impression that it would be possible to clone any mammalian species, including humans.

So far, no scientist has been able to specifically turn any adult stem cell population into good populations of motor-neuron cells. Remember that ALS patients tend to die within four years. Opponents of therapeutic cloning need to remember that we do not have time to waste.

I personally have still not heard a potential use of this technique, to produce a new person, that I would find ethically acceptable, ... ...on that basis, I hope that you're wrong.

If we wait until things are totally tested and analyzed in animals, it will deny some people that treatment.

I think now to contemplate using our present technique with humans would be quite inhuman,

I do believe that Hwang's laboratory achieved what they described, but then were careless.