Quotes By Leon Kass

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.

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

We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years.

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

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.

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

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

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.