Educator Quotes

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

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

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

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

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

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

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

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

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy.

To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.

The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.

The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.

The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.

So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.

No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.

Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.