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Many of our fellow citizens do not share the blind faith in the simple beneficence of all technological innovation. And because they do not share the corporealist, morally neutral, and in some cases atheistic world-view that they attribute (fairly or not) to science and scientists, they are reluctant to surrender the power of decision to the very people who they think are creating the problem.

— Leon Kass Forbidding Science: Some Beginning Reflections (2006)

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To act nobly, a noble heart is not enough. It needs help from a sharp mind.

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Could technology, understood as the disposition and activity of mastery, turn out to be a stumbling block in the path of the master himself?

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Although not all flesh is forbidden, everything that is forbidden is flesh.

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I have come to believe that looking honestly for the human being, following the path wherever it leads, may itself be an integral part of finding it.

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