Unreasonable Quotes - Page 11

• 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

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• It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.

  Robert Walpole

  Demand, Patriot, Insolent

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• It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Women, Cost, Cherish

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.425, 谷月社

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