In the 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political left and right would not have found the idea of designer babies particularly dangerous - though, of course, they would not have used that phrase.
From Richard Dawkins
Once a viral program gets started, there is nothing to stop it.
Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.
There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.
People like to trace their ancestry.
Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.
The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.
The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground world and water striders live in a surface tension-dominated flatland, we live in a social world.
When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.
There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that physicists understand it better than I do.
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