Ian Wilmut quotes

I see nothing wrong ethically with the idea of correcting single gene defects through genetic engineering. But I am concerned about any other kind of intervention, for anything else would be an experiment, which would impose our will on future generations and take unreasonable chances with their welfare ... Thus such intervention is beyond the scope of consideration.
-- Ian Wilmut

#Engineering #Ideas #Would Be

It is difficult to imagine a greater imposition than adding genes to future generations that changes the nature of future people.
-- Ian Wilmut

#People #Generations #Imagine

The pressures for human cloning are powerful; but, although it seems likely that somebody, at some time, will attempt it, we need not assume that it will ever become a common or significant feature of human life.
-- Ian Wilmut

#Powerful #Needs #Cloning

It is not possible to think of a way of screening out effectively the most appropriate embryos, and hence, what we should expect would be late abortions -- either occurring spontaneously or being induced deliberately in the second or third trimester of pregnancy -- in order to prevent the birth of abnormal children.
-- Ian Wilmut

#Children #Pregnancy #Thinking

Any kind of manipulation with human embryos should be prohibited.
-- Ian Wilmut

#Manipulation #Kind #Should

I think the initial reason why I became interested in farming is that I wanted to be outdoors. I've always enjoyed being outdoors. And so, I looked around and when I was at high school, probably 14 or so, my parents through friends arranged for me to be able to go work on farms on the weekend.
-- Ian Wilmut

#School #Weekend #Thinking

An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.

Copying is about reverse-engineering.

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.

Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.

I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’

I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.

George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.

Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.