Leon Kass
Leon Kass
Leon Richard Kassis an American physician, scientist, educator, and public intellectual, best known as proponent of liberal education via the "Great Books," as an opponent of human cloning, life extension and euthanasia, as a critic of certain areas of technological progress and embryo research, and for his controversial tenure as chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2005. Although Kass is often referred to as a bioethicist, he eschews the term and refers to himself as "an...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth12 February 1939
CountryUnited States of America
Leon Kass quotes about
Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.
It is not the issue I want my own work solely remembered for.
One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.