Its very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters. – Leon Kass
I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them. – Leon Kass
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. – Leon Kass
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event – not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics – then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light. – Simon Winchester