Gregory Stock

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. ”

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

Geographic boundaries really begin to disappear with the Internet. ”

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. ”

The biggest development in reproductive biology is the birth-control pill. Nobody ever talks about it, but look at the consequences: demographics; aging populations; the sinking population of Europe, Japan; immigration. It's incredible. ”

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

In my view, the most damaging evils that are perpetrated upon us are through some abstract notion about good, where we're willing to sacrifice individuals in the present for some great vision of an improved or perfect future. ”

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. ”

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

No one really has the guts to say it, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we? ”