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We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.

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

Practically every technology that is ever invented is touted as being the new savior, the thing that will bring peace and goodwill to the earth, but immediately it falls into other hands who see it as the opportunity to promote the very opposite.

The end of life is likely to be an important focus for innovation. Most people die in hospitals, tied up with tubes and with their bodies pumped full of drugs. Yet most would rather die at home and with more control over the timing and manner of their death.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.