Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.
Leon Kass

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

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.
Leon Kass

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.
Leon Kass

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

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

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?
Leon Kass

One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
Leon Kass

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.
Leon Kass

Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.
Leon Kass

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.
Leon Kass

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

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

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

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.
Leon Kass

The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
Leon Kass

The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.
Leon Kass

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

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.
Leon Kass

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