Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

People are still people no matter how you cut it.

Like the 'test tube babies' born of in vitro fertilization, cloned children need not be identifiable, much less freaks or outcasts.

In Massachusetts, scientists have created the first human clone. The bad thing is that in thirty years, the clone will still be depressed because the Boston Red Sox will still have not won a World Series.

You might clone some people who would look amazingly like their parental cell donors, but the odds are that they’d be almost as different as you or me, and certainly more different than any of today’s identical twins.

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

Models are people. A lot of people like to make us some species that are not human; we are normal people.

A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.

We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise as a cloned child.

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

No one is ever ordinary.

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

Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

There is absolutely no doubt about it, and I may not be the one that does it, but the cloned child is coming. There is absolutely no way that it will not happen.

I'm not a brand name, I'm a person.

A human clone is nothing but an identical twin that is born much later.

I'm not a number. Dammit, I'm a man.

If our planet has seen some eighty billion people it is difficult to suppose hat every individual has had his or her own repertory of gestures. Arithmetically, it is simply impossible. Without the slightest doubt, there are far fewer gestures in the world than there are individuals. That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion: a gesture is more individual than an individual. We could put it in the form of an aphorism: many people, few gestures.

Every people, like every person, . . . has a right to be itself.

People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person.

It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people regardless.

People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

I don't look at people and see color and race. I see inside.

The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.