Brigitte Boisselier Quotes

If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.

What we're talking about is creating new forms of life on the basis of new values.

What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting.

People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?

As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.

If we create independent life, but keep it under our control, what is that? It can be said to be a form of slavery.

I imagine a day, some time in the not too distant future when children and teenagers will be able to create their own genetically engineered machines, cure the diseases of the old and find new ways to build and extend the capabilities of humanity, moving from programming software to programing the physical world, through biology.

We've created life in our own image.

Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.

If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make.

Now that we can read and write the genetic code, put it in digital form and translate it back into synthesized life, it will be possible to speed up biological evolution to the pace of social evolution.

Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life.

A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future.

We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing.

What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.

We live in a science fictional world with things like cloning and face transplants, and things seem to be getting stranger and stranger.

Writing genetic code like we do software will usher in a completely new way of living for all of us. When this happens, our society will be as fundamentally changed as we have seen from the invention of computers.

I'm interested in using evolution to move forward into the future, to get biology to do a lot of new chemistry for us.

My feeling is that if a human being can coax life to build bonds between silicon and carbon, nature can do it too.

The goal of reanimation research is not to make perfect living copies of extinct organisms, nor is it meant to be a one-off stunt in a laboratory or zoo. Reanimation is about leveraging the best of ancient and synthetic DNA.

I wanted to rewrite the code of life, to make new molecular machines that would solve human problems.

Our culture already has a number of well known stories about artificial life and non-human intelligence. In 'Exegesis,' I've tried to not only tell a new and engaging story but also to comment on those well known stories through the details of my novel.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!

Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.