On human cloning

Reproductive cloning will, perhaps, one day become a specialized department in a genetic discipline -- one that is sure of itself, of its techniques and of its moral guarantees -- and will be used to alleviate some kinds of masculine sterility, and only if we do not find something better before then.

But the tree should not hide the forest: if the casuists of the ethics committees approve this domain, it will remain marginal in the face of the diverse applications provided by the exploitation of embryonic stem cells. It is perfectly possible to wait until then. But we should not yield to the obscurantist threats which weigh on genetic research, and are triggered by religious beliefs which are valid in their own sphere but not universally.

Science-as-spectacle is the worst enemy of science.

-- Liberation, Paris