Rachel Cohn Quotes

I never knew anyone who was cloned, but I played one in 'Multiplicity.'

I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.

Cloning isn’t all that unusual. For thousands of years we have been cloning plants.

Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.

Genomic science, as the newest frontier in scholarly research, is throwing open the door to a revolutionary way of approaching our health, the health and welfare of animals, and the sustainability of our environment.

The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

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

The egg of every species of animal or plant carries a definite number of bodies called chromosomes. The sperm carries the same number. Consequently, when the sperm unites with the egg, the fertilized egg will contain the double number of chromosomes.

I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.

There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg.

Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life.

You can't have life without the genetic code.

I laughed when Steven Spielberg said that cloning extinct animals was inevitable. But I'm not laughing anymore, at least about mammoths. This is going to happen. It's just a matter of working out the details.

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.

'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.

Billions of dollars have been put into genetic research.

The time to talk about it in schools and churches and magazines and debate societies is now. If you wait, five years from now the gene doctor will be hanging out the MAKE A SMARTER BABY sign down the street.

Renegade scientists and totalitarian loonies are not the folks most likely to abuse genetic engineering. You and I are--not because we are bad but because we want to do good. In a world dominated by competition, parents understandably want to give their kids every advantage. ... The most likely way for eugenics to enter into our lives is through the front door as nervous parents ... will fall over one another to be first to give Junior a better set of genes.

Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. Creating a child through this new method calls into question our most fundamental beliefs. It has the potential to threaten the sacred family bonds at the very core of our ideals and our society. At its worst, it could lead to misguided and malevolent attempts to select certain traits, even to create certain kind of children -- to make our children objects rather than cherished individuals.

Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

For my part, I would say that the male sperm and seeds of plants have been penetrated so far that there is nothing further to discover in this great secret, but I could err in my opinion.

One of the more fantastic possibilities is that man will be able to make biological carbon copies of himself.

Why not aspire to build a real Jurassic Park?

I don't want to clone anyone, not even myself.