53 Quotes by Leon R. Kass

La maledizione dell'uomo è di scoprire i mali nascosti in ciò che desidera solo quando è troppo tardi.

E soprattutto, non dobbiamo ingannare noi stessi: non dobbiamo mai cercare di alleviare le nostre frustrazioni e amarezze per una morte che tarda ad arrivare illudendoci di uccidere qualcuno per difendere la sua dignità.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual – the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God’s image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one’s own.