Gregory Stock Quotes

As we decipher our biology and learn to modify and adjust it, we are learning to modify ourselves - and we will do so. No laws will stop this.

Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.

There are a lot of people highly motivated to be the first to clone a human.

We should be happy. We should be enjoying that there is all this bounty. Somebody can take an iPod and have all the world's music at their beck and call in an instant. What an amazing thing!

If you judge by what people do to improve their health, they value their lives highly. So adding to your period of vitality is something that most people would certainly do. If there was a pill that would do that, it's clear that everyone would take it.

We're all going to eventually, even in the developed world, going to have to lose everything that we love. When you're beginning to rot a little bit, all of the videos crammed into your head, all of the extensions that extend your various powers, are going to being to seem a little secondary.

When a couple has a strong preference for a baby boy or girl, who is injured by allowing them to choose? Certainly not the child.

If out of concern over cloning, the U.S. Congress succeeds in criminalizing embryonic stem-cell research that might bring treatments for Alzheimer's disease or diabetes - and Dr. Fukuyama lent his name to a petition that supported such laws - there would be real victims: present and future sufferers of those diseases.

Our increasing ability to alter our biology and open up the processes of life is now fueling a new cultural war.

There is a pent-up demand from people who want to clone their dead children.

Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span.