Genetic Duplication Quotes

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

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

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

A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.

Certainly I see no reason why society should prevent grieving parents from having a baby cloned from the cells of a dead child if they wish.

At the moment, our society does not permit human cloning. But that could change.

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

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

Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid.

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.

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

Not only are we reading life code, we're beginning to copy it through cloning, and we're beginning to write, and in the measure that we do that, boy, you can build a lot of very powerful companies in a short period of time.

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

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

Creating a child by cloning at this time is a moral outrage …

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.

Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.

In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.

At some point, someone will come up with an airtight argument as to why they should have a cloned child. At that point, cloning will be acceptable.

I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.

Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.

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 may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with reflex hysteria but decided quietly, soberly and on its own merits. We need less emotion and more thought.