Genetic Engineering Quotes - Page 2

• Nos hemos acostumbrado a las maravillas del agua potable, la fontanería interior, la cirugía láser, la ingeniería genética, las articulaciones artificiales, las partes del cuerpo de reemplazo y las vidas mucho más largas que las acompañan. Sin embargo, debemos recordar que la inmensa mayoría de los seres humanos nacidos alguna vez murieron antes de los 10 años a causa de una enfermedad infecciosa.

  S. Jay Olshansky

  Ingeniería, Agua, Edad

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• The fact is that humans have been shaping the genetics of what they eat for thousands of years. Genetic engineering simply speeds up the process that used to take generations. Preventing people from getting things like golden rice or disease-resistant cassava destroys human life, and does not spare the environment in any way.

  Annalee Newitz

  Engineering, Years, People

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• The time to talk about it [genetic engineering to improve a baby's genes] in schools and churches and magazines and debate societies is now. If you wait, five years from now the gene doctor will be hanging out the MAKE A SMARTER BABY sign down the street.

  Arthur Caplan

  Baby, School, Doctors

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• Con la ingeniería genética podremos aumentar la complejidad de nuestro ADN y mejorar la raza humana. Pero será un proceso lento, porque habrá que esperar unos 18 años para ver el efecto de los cambios en el código genético. En cambio, los ordenadores duplican su velocidad y su memoria cada 18 meses. Existe un peligro real de que los ordenadores desarrollen inteligencia y tomen el control. Necesitamos urgentemente desarrollar conexiones directas con el cerebro para que los ordenadores puedan sumarse a la inteligencia humana en lugar de oponerse a ella.

  Stephen Hawking

  Memories, Real, Race

  Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 18, 2001.

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• Tragically, some people are genetically more susceptible than others to agripoisons and industrial pollutants. Genetic engineering to correct these medical problems is a narrow (reductionistic) and instrumental (mechanistic) response to a problem that is fundamentally conceptual: namely, our attitude toward life and our mistreatment of the Earth, plants, and animals-and ourselves in the process.

  Michael Fox

  Attitude, Animal, Medical Problems

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• Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile, fully-obedient, 'safe' organisms.

  William Sims

  Engineering, Drug, Brain

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• I do think it is very important that the religious communities do try to bring their teachings and their insights to bear on the stem cell debate and on the debate about genetic engineering.

  Michael Sandel

  Religión, Enseñanza, Pensamiento

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• By the time we, consumers, are aware of processes like genetic engineering, they're already being done. It's sort of like the war in Iraq: By the time we know about it, it's almost a fait accompli. And that's certainly true with science.

  Ruth Ozeki

  War, Engineering, Iraq

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• Genetic engineering is having a serious impact on the food we eat, on the environment, and on farmers. To ensure we can maximize benefits and minimize hazards, Congress must provide a comprehensive regulatory framework for all genetically engineered products.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Impact, Engineering, Hazards

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• If I were 21 years old, I would go into biotechnology or genetic engineering.

  Larry Ellison

  Engineering, Years, Biotechnology

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• La ciencia es peligrosa. No cabe duda de que el gas venenoso, la ingeniería genética y las armas y centrales nucleares son aterradoras. Puede que la civilización se esté desmoronando y que el mundo que conocemos esté llegando a su fin. En ese caso, ¿por qué no recurrir a la religión y esperar el Día del Juicio Final, ... [...ser elevados a la dicha eterna... [y] ver a los burlones e incrédulos retorcerse eternamente en el tormento.

  Isaac Asimov

  Otoño, Ciencia, Ingeniería

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• Atlantis was a highly evolved civilization where the sciences and arts were far more advanced than one might guess. Atlantis was technologically advanced in genetic engineering, computer science, inter-dimensional physics, and artistically developed with electronic music and crystal art forms.

  Federico Lenz

  Art, Civilization, Engineering

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• I am trying to get at the moral arguments and the ethical status of various attempts at enhancement, or genetic engineering, or the bid for designer children. But there are implications for society at large.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Engineering, Trying

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded.... I fear that, if the green movement's high-amplitude warnings over GMOs turn out to be empty, people will be dangerously disinclined to listen to other and more serious warnings.

  Richard Dawkins

  Engineering, Gmos, People

  Richard Dawkins (2010). “A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.

  Dan Brown

  Powerful, Engineering, Body

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