Gregory Stock
Gregory Stock
Gregory Stock is a biophysicist, best-selling author, biotech entrepreneur, and the former director of the Program on Medicine, Technology and Society at UCLA’s School of Medicine. His interests lie in the scientific and evolutionary as well as ethical, social and political implications of today's revolutions in the life sciences and in information technology and computers...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
adjust decipher laws learning ourselves stop
As we decipher our biology and learn to modify and adjust it, we are learning to modify ourselves - and we will do so. No laws will stop this.
defeating diseases extend life mean therapy
Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span.
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No one really has the guts to say it, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?
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In my view, the most damaging evils that are perpetrated upon us are through some abstract notion about good, where we're willing to sacrifice individuals in the present for some great vision of an improved or perfect future.