# Directed Human Evolution Quotation Queue — 2026-09-12 Intake of the user-supplied 100 + 50 candidates. These are **quotation candidates**, not 150 verified publications or endorsements. Source links below are leads from the packet. Production promotion requires original-context verification, complete poster wording, attribution, existing-Reminder comparison, and reciprocal wiki placement. A secondary page or search-result quotation does not itself prove wording. **Candidates:** 150. **Promoted in this pass:** 6. **Source-check queue:** 139. **Exact earlier archive matches:** 2. **Possible overlaps:** 3. **Uncited in packet:** 1. The intake keeps the distinct propositions visible: self-directed evolution, reproductive freedom, procreative duty, genomic prediction, commercial embryo screening, and germline editing. Quantitative or 2025–2026 product claims need current primary-source checks; philosophical advocacy is not an empirical effectiveness claim. Do not collapse parental choice into coercive state programs, or enhancement aspirations into achieved clinical capability. ## Candidate inventory ### DHE-001 — Stephen Hawking > “There is no time, to wait for Darwinian evolution, to make us more intelligent, and better natured.” - **Intake:** promoted. - **Archive comparison:** `reminders/Evolution/We Cannot Wait for Darwinian Evolution by Stephen Hawking`. - **Promoted Reminder:** [[reminders/Evolution/We Cannot Wait for Darwinian Evolution by Stephen Hawking|We Cannot Wait for Darwinian Evolution by Stephen Hawking]]. - **Source lead:** https://www.hawking.org.uk/in-words/lectures/life-in-the-universe - **Verification:** primary/authoritative source checked; see production Reminder for final wording and context. - **Editorial note:** Exact lecture-transcript sentence; speech-synthesizer punctuation preserved. ### DHE-002 — Stephen Hawking > “We are entering a new phase: self-designed evolution.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/03/14/look-back-hawking-speeches-boston/hLVuzChmucU4t87IyTFQ1M/story.html - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. - **Editorial note:** This is not the exact wording in Hawking’s 1996 “Life in the Universe” lecture, which uses “what might be called, self designed evolution”; verify the Boston-speech source separately. ### DHE-003 — Stephen Hawking > “Once we’ve read the book of life, we will start writing the corrections.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/03/14/look-back-hawking-speeches-boston/hLVuzChmucU4t87IyTFQ1M/story.html - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. - **Editorial note:** This differs from the 1996 lecture’s “Once we have read the book of life, we will start writing in corrections”; verify the attributed Boston wording separately before promotion. ### DHE-004 — Stephen Hawking > “If the human race manages to redesign itself, it will probably spread out and colonise other planets and stars.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2168694/stephen-hawking-feared-race-superhumans-able-manipulate-their-own - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-005 — Charles Cantor > “We have the tools today not just to control evolution, but to speed it up in a massive way.” - **Intake:** possible_archive_overlap. - **Archive comparison:** `reminders/Evolution/Evolution Is in Our Hands but Wisdom Must Guide It by Charles Cantor`. - **Source lead:** https://www.bu.edu/pardee/files/documents/Conf03-Human-Nature.pdf - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-006 — Charles Cantor > “Evolution is in our hands.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.bu.edu/pardee/files/documents/Conf03-Human-Nature.pdf - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-007 — James Watson > “If we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn’t we?” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/internal-content/engineering-human-germline-participants - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-008 — Jamie Metzl > “From this point onward, our selection won’t be natural. It will be self directed.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.infosys.com/iki/podcasts/global-interdependence.html - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-009 — Jamie Metzl > “select among pre-implanted embryos based on optimizing health or optimizing other traits.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/transcript-jamie-metzl-talks-with-michael-morell-on-intelligence-matters/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-010 — Jamie Metzl > “we will be able to determine polygenic traits like height and the genetic component of intelligence.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://jamiemetzl.com/2015112would-i-genetically-enhance-my-own-children/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-011 — John Harris > “use genetic technology to make people more healthy, intelligent and longer-lived, it’s our moral duty to do so.” - **Intake:** promoted. - **Archive comparison:** `reminders/Evolution/Genetic Enhancement Is a Moral Duty by John Harris`. - **Promoted Reminder:** [[reminders/Evolution/Genetic Enhancement Is a Moral Duty by John Harris|Genetic Enhancement Is a Moral Duty by John Harris]]. - **Source lead:** https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/getting-better-all-the-time/ - **Verification:** primary/authoritative source checked; see production Reminder for final wording and context. - **Editorial note:** Promoted with an opening ellipsis and Harris’s first-person opening restored from his complete 2007 authored sentence. ### DHE-012 — John Harris > “We, the world, our descendants need genome editing to be pursued.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.statnews.com/2015/12/02/gene-editing-summit-embryos/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-013 — John Harris > “If there is a discernible duty here it is surely to create the best possible child.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/dec/02/why-human-gene-editing-must-not-be-stopped - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-014 — Julian Savulescu > “This paper argues that we have a moral obligation to enhance human beings.” - **Intake:** possible_archive_overlap. - **Archive comparison:** `reminders/Evolution/Enhancement Can Be a Moral Obligation by Julian Savulescu`. - **Source lead:** https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15820005/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-015 — Julian Savulescu > “To be human is to strive to be better.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15820005/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-016 — Julian Savulescu > “should select the child … who is expected to have the best life.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8519.00251 - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-017 — Julian Savulescu > “it is imperative to pursue moral enhancement … by genetic or other biological means.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-8519.2011.01907.x - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-018 — Julian Savulescu > “It’s about enhancing people’s freedom rather than reducing it.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/oct/10/genetics.research - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-019 — Julian Savulescu > “at some point we will be intervening at the genetic level.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/oct/10/genetics.research - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-020 — Julian Savulescu > “As a species, we have a moral obligation to enhance ourselves.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://ideas.ted.com/the-ethics-of-genetically-enhanced-monkey-slaves/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-021 — Julian Savulescu > “I think people should be free to do it.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://ideas.ted.com/the-ethics-of-genetically-enhanced-monkey-slaves/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-022 — Julian Savulescu > “gene editing could be used for enhancement of the genetic contribution to general intelligence.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bioe.12570 - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-023 — Julian Savulescu > “Not only can we enhance, we should enhance.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=5705480 - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-024 — Julian Savulescu > “we have a moral obligation or moral reason to enhance ourselves and our children.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=5705480 - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-025 — David Pearce > “The post-Darwinian transition is no longer merely anticipated. It has begun.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.hedweb.com/social-media/rr_files/saved_resource%282%29.html - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-026 — David Pearce > “The blind roulette of natural selection is giving way.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.hedweb.com/social-media/rr_files/saved_resource%282%29.html - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-027 — David Pearce > “Prospective parents should use benign code.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://sentience-research.org/the-imperative-to-abolish-suffering-an-interview-with-david-pearce/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-028 — David Pearce > “the way to fix the problem of suffering is a genome reform.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://blog.apaonline.org/2023/03/24/what-its-like-to-be-a-philosopher/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-029 — David Pearce > “we’ll be choosing such traits as the average hedonic set point of our children.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.hedweb.com/hedethic/interview.html - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-030 — David Pearce > “All babies should be genetically designed for happiness.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://sentience-research.org/the-imperative-to-abolish-suffering-an-interview-with-david-pearce/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-031 — David Pearce > “Our genetically enhanced successors won’t grow old and die, but will be effectively immortal.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** none supplied. - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-032 — Gregory Stock > “The very process of evolution itself is evolving.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.wired.com/2002/06/has-the-evolution-of-h-sapiens-stopped/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-033 — Gregory Stock > “slamming it to fast forward.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.wired.com/2002/06/has-the-evolution-of-h-sapiens-stopped/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-034 — Gregory Stock > “we can begin to intervene in those processes.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2007/08/17/august-17-2007-gregory-stock/3778/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-035 — Gregory Stock > “Of course there is going to be genetic engineering.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://digitalcast.jp/v/16926/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-036 — Gregory Stock > “The arrival of safe, reliable germline technology will signal the beginning of human self-design.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2003/02/09/putting-god-on-notice/9d22e7d8-4c89-47ab-98c6-a7fa4b96c7f7/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-037 — Gregory Stock > “It’s not a question of ‘if’ but ‘when’ and ‘how’ this will occur.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-09-mn-17684-story.html - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-038 — Lee Silver > “Genetic engineering is the foundation of civilization.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/fertility/interviews/silver.html - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-039 — Lee Silver > “So we are already doing it.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/fertility/interviews/silver.html - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-040 — Lee Silver > “combining their technologies produces reprogenetics, which will allow us to design ourselves.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2002/08/15/0000160395 - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-041 — Lee Silver > “The question is whether parents themselves should be allowed to choose what genes go into their own children.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://bigthink.com/leesilver/big-think-interview-with-lee-silver - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-042 — James J. Hughes > “even germ-line genetic enhancement should eventually [be] made available since the potential benefits greatly outweigh the potential risks.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.researchgate.net/publication/400155899_Embracing_Change_with_All_Four_Arms_A_Post-Humanist_Defense_of_Genetic_Engineering - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-043 — James J. Hughes > “banning genetic engineering would be a profound mistake.” - **Intake:** possible_archive_overlap. - **Archive comparison:** `reminders/Evolution/Banning Genetic Engineering Would Be a Mistake by James J. Hughes`. - **Source lead:** https://jamesjhughes.medium.com/embracing-change-with-all-four-arms-a-post-humanist-defense-of-genetic-engineering-2d8a575326b8 - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-044 — James J. Hughes > “the right to self-determination trumps a lot of those vaguer, long-term concerns.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://ieet.org/archive/articles/cascio20041201.html - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-045 — James J. Hughes > “It’s inevitable, in the broad context of freedom and choice.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.wired.com/2009/03/designerdebate/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-046 — Max More > “our current human form can be improved upon.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.transfigurism.org/videos/max-more-apotheosis-and-perpetual-progress - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-047 — Max More > “The real issue is the pursuit of fundamental knowledge and the breaking of the chains of human nature.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://maxmore.substack.com/p/beyond-caution-the-party-of-life - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-048 — Max More > “it’s our nature to keep on improving it.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.transfigurism.org/videos/max-more-apotheosis-and-perpetual-progress - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-049 — Nick Bostrom > “In the case of germ-line enhancements, the potential gains are enormous.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://nickbostrom.com/ethics/genetic - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-050 — Nick Bostrom > “Healthier, wittier, happier people may be able to reach new levels culturally.” - **Intake:** exact_archive_match. - **Archive comparison:** `reminders/Evolution/Genetic Enhancement Could Open New Cultural Levels by Nick Bostrom`. - **Source lead:** https://nickbostrom.com/ethics/genetic - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-051 — Walter Veit > “Imagine a world where everyone is healthy, intelligent, long living and happy.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://walterveit.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/procreative_beneficence_and_genetic_enhancement.pdf - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-052 — Walter Veit > “the parental obligation of genetically enhancing one’s children.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://walterveit.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/procreative_beneficence_and_genetic_enhancement.pdf - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-053 — Kian Sadeghi > “A genetic optimization software that helps parents give their children the best possible start in life.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kian-sadeghi-8273ba178_nucleus-embryo-is-here-genetic-optimization-activity-7336076840589029376-nt2- - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-054 — Kian Sadeghi > “optimize their embryos based on intelligence.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kian-sadeghi-8273ba178_nucleus-embryo-is-here-genetic-optimization-activity-7336076840589029376-nt2- - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-055 — Kian Sadeghi > “genetic optimization stack.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026/06/25/dna-editing-human-embryos-reignites-debate-over-designer-babies/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-056 — Kian Sadeghi > “We call it genetic optimization.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.apr.org/science-health/2026-05-06/these-companies-help-parents-try-to-pick-their-babies-traits-experts-are-wary - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-057 — Kian Sadeghi > “We help people have their best babies.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.apr.org/science-health/2026-05-06/these-companies-help-parents-try-to-pick-their-babies-traits-experts-are-wary - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-058 — Kian Sadeghi > “Genetic engineering in human embryos is here.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kian-sadeghi-8273ba178_scientists-edit-human-embryo-genes-with-startling-activity-7468669782297346048-vMrg - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-059 — Noor Siddiqui > “Sex is for fun, Orchid and embryo screening is for babies.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://vi.web-platforms-vi.nyti.nyt.net/2025/08/07/opinion/genetics-children-noor-siddiqui.html - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-060 — Noor Siddiqui > “Oh, I actually think it’s already true.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://vi.web-platforms-vi.nyti.nyt.net/2025/08/07/opinion/genetics-children-noor-siddiqui.html - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-061 — Noor Siddiqui > “This is the future of how babies will be born!” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/16/orchid-polygenic-screening-embryos-fertility/?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-062 — Noor Siddiqui > “I think that it’s gonna become insane not to screen for these things.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.theinformation.com/articles/dawn-of-the-silicon-valley-superbaby - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-063 — Noor Siddiqui > “I started the company because I wanted to test my own embryos.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.wired.com/story/this-woman-will-decide-which-babies-are-born-noor-siddiqui-orchid/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-064 — Steve Hsu > “you might get three or four IQ points per generation.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.manifold1.com/episodes/steve-hsu-q-a-complex-trait-prediction-in-genomics-and-genomic-prediction-embryo-selection/transcript - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-065 — Steve Hsu > “maybe five to seven IQ points per generation.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.manifold1.com/episodes/steve-hsu-q-a-complex-trait-prediction-in-genomics-and-genomic-prediction-embryo-selection/transcript - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-066 — Steve Hsu > “one of the best and earliest applications of this would be embryo selection.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://stevehsu.substack.com/p/interview-with-genetic-engineering-biotechnology-news - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-067 — Steve Hsu > “For the first time … we have genomic predictors for these traits.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://stevehsu.substack.com/p/the-future-of-ivf-and-gene-editing-psychology-today-interview - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-068 — Jonathan Anomaly > “you can stack the deck ahead of time, the genetic deck.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://podscripts.co/podcasts/modern-wisdom/1017-jonathan-anomaly-what-embryo-selection-means-for-humanity - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-069 — Jonathan Anomaly > “This technology is a godsend.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://podscripts.co/podcasts/modern-wisdom/1017-jonathan-anomaly-what-embryo-selection-means-for-humanity - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-070 — Jonathan Anomaly > “there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with altered genes.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Polygenic_screening - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-071 — Jonathan Anomaly > “embryo selection and gene editing may be essential just to stay where we are now.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Polygenic_screening - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-072 — George Church > “with gene editing, you can almost make anything in principle.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://medium.com/%40nickhong89/exclusive-interview-with-george-church-godfather-of-gene-engineering-part-1-of-2-3b4ea8b59227 - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-073 — George Church > “I think it’s not helpful to pretend like it’s impossible.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://medium.com/%40nickhong89/exclusive-interview-with-george-church-godfather-of-gene-engineering-part-1-of-2-3b4ea8b59227 - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-074 — George Church > “our ancestral limits can be blown away.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/2017-01-26-george-church/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-075 — George Church > “I’m not a big fan of drawing red lines in ethics.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/2017-01-26-george-church/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-076 — George Church > “We’re not necessarily opposed to enhancement if everybody gets access to it simultaneously.” - **Intake:** promoted. - **Archive comparison:** `reminders/Evolution/Genetic Enhancement Must Be Equally Accessible by George Church`. - **Promoted Reminder:** [[reminders/Evolution/Genetic Enhancement Must Be Equally Accessible by George Church|Genetic Enhancement Must Be Equally Accessible by George Church]]. - **Source lead:** https://www.cbsnews.com/news/george-church-the-complicated-ethics-of-genetic-engineering-60-minutes-2019-12-08/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab4i - **Verification:** primary/authoritative source checked; see production Reminder for final wording and context. - **Editorial note:** The same conditional equal-access statement appears as HB-047; verified against the CBS interview with oversight context. ### DHE-077 — George Daley > “If I can help them via germline genome editing, I have a moral duty to do so.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.statnews.com/2015/12/03/gene-editing-human-embryos/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-078 — Peter Singer > “genetic selection will inevitably move towards genetic enhancement.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/sep/19/post385 - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-079 — Arthur Caplan > “We already engage in designer-baby technology now.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://secularhumanism.org/2003/10/arthur-caplan-on-the-future-of-bioethics/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-080 — Arthur Caplan > “it is a good thing to try to improve the abilities and capacities of your children.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://secularhumanism.org/2003/10/arthur-caplan-on-the-future-of-bioethics/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-081 — Nathan Treff > “Trait selection is, without any doubt, well within the scope of reproductive medicine.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-treff-phd-hcld-4802292 - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-082 — Richard Hanania > “we have a moral obligation to do what we can to create the healthiest, smartest, and best-looking children possible.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.richardhanania.com/p/should-all-parents-consider-embryo - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-083 — J. B. S. Haldane > “In the future perhaps it may be possible by selective breeding to change character as quickly as institutions.” - **Intake:** exact_archive_match. - **Archive comparison:** `reminders/Selection/Character Could Change as Fast as Institutions by J. B. S. Haldane`. - **Source lead:** https://www.marxists.org/archive/haldane/works/1920s/daedalus.htm - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-084 — Julian Huxley > “The human species can, if it wishes, transcend itself.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.transfigurism.org/quotations/julian-huxley-on-transhumanism-species-transcend-itself - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-085 — Ray Kurzweil > “Biotechnology is providing the means to actually change your genes: not just designer babies but designer baby boomers.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.thekurzweillibrary.com/dialogue-a-conversation-on-the-singularity - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-086 — Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans > “nonrandom, deliberate human genetic engineering is new, and it is a big deal.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.discovermagazine.com/with-gene-therapy-we-could-direct-our-own-evolution-26729 - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-087 — Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans > “As of 1990, increasingly genetically modified humans walk among us.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.discovermagazine.com/with-gene-therapy-we-could-direct-our-own-evolution-26729 - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-088 — Lee Sweeney > “The technology that allows us to treat human disease will also allow us to enhance people.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://reason.com/2002/07/24/voting-for-progress/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-089 — Nicholas Agar > “the addition of the word ‘liberal’ to ‘eugenics’ transforms an evil doctrine into a morally acceptable one.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2021/entries/eugenics/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-090 — Zoltan Istvan > “Transhumanists believe everyone can be improved and should be improved if they want.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/exoskeletons-vs-wheel-chairs-disability-advocates-clash-futurists-over-offensive-solution-1496178 - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-091 — Zoltan Istvan > “we’re talking about, in a couple of years, changing the IQ of our children.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.inverse.com/article/8584-presidential-candidate-zoltan-istvan-on-why-americans-aren-t-all-anti-death - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-092 — Zoltan Istvan > “This is major stuff — it’s how civilization and society moves forward.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.inverse.com/article/8584-presidential-candidate-zoltan-istvan-on-why-americans-aren-t-all-anti-death - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-093 — Charles Harper > “Stasis is not an option.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://reason.com/2000/03/07/vulgarity-and-tastelessness/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-094 — Ronald Bailey > “objections to the safe genetic enhancement of progeny will fade away and the technologies will be widely embraced later in this century.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://reason.com/2015/07/16/if-people-could-genetically-modify-their/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-095 — Ronald Bailey > “Americans are apparently, and rightly, more afraid of government interference than they are of designer babies.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://reason.com/2005/03/16/whose-biotech-is-it-anyway/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-096 — Jamie Metzl > “the human genetic revolution is inevitable and approaching quickly.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.everand.com/book/407600740/Hacking-Darwin-Genetic-Engineering-and-the-Future-of-Humanity - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-097 — Natasha Vita-More > “we cannot survive without certain technologies. Genetic engineering, stem cells, nano-medicine, artificial intelligence…” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://futurespodcast.net/episodes/12-maxmore-natashavitamore - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-098 — Aubrey de Grey > “The sky is the limit.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-the-future-of-human-physical-enhancement/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-099 — Nicholas Agar > “If we are permitted to produce certain traits by modifying our children’s environments, then we are also permitted to produce them by modifying their genomes.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/liberal-eugenics-in-defence-of-human-enhancement/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-100 — Julian Huxley > “I believe in transhumanism.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Julian_Huxley - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-101 — Francis Galton > “What nature does blindly, slowly, and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://galton.org/essays/1900-1911/galton-1904-am-journ-soc-eugenics-scope-aims.htm - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. - **Editorial note:** Galton’s 1904 paper must retain its explicit race-selection and restrictive-marriage historical context; do not present this as context-free contemporary reproductive liberty. ### DHE-102 — J. B. S. Haldane > “It is as certain that voluntary adoption of this kind of eugenics will come.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://jbshaldane.org/books/1927-Possible-Worlds/haldane-1927-possible-worlds.html - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-103 — Jonathan Anomaly > “It is becoming increasingly difficult to justify rolling the genetic dice by having children without thinking about the traits they will have.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6096849/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. - **Editorial note:** The Anomaly candidate starts within a longer abstract sentence and changes original lower-case “it” to “It”; source also discusses possible coercion and parental licensing. ### DHE-104 — Nicholas Agar — passage > “Some interventions in human heredity should nevertheless be acknowledged as morally good. These morally good eugenic interventions include some uses of preimplantation genetic diagnosis.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-quarterly-of-healthcare-ethics/article/abs/why-we-should-defend-gene-editing-as-eugenics/00B15AEB625379F8543C43E286160B87 - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. - **Editorial note:** The Agar candidate is not a contiguous two-sentence quotation: it omits a substantive opening subordinate clause. His paper also discusses morally dangerous and population-level interventions. ### DHE-105 — Walter Veit, Jonathan Anomaly, Nicholas Agar, Peter Singer, Diana Fleischman, et al. > “The important point is not what words we use but instead the moral distinctions we make between different kinds of interventions.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://walterveit.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/veit2021_article_caneugenicsbedefended.pdf - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-106 — Walter Veit > “Accepting the PPB … commits one to accepting the parental obligation of genetically enhancing one’s children.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343851578_Procreative_Beneficence_and_Genetic_Enhancement - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-107 — Max More — passage > “Perfection is not the real issue. The real issue is the pursuit of fundamental knowledge and the breaking of the chains of human nature.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://maxmore.substack.com/p/beyond-caution-the-party-of-life - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-108 — Max More > “I look forward to it as the next phase of our development away from unconscious nature towards a posthuman condition of self-creation or automorphing.” - **Intake:** promoted. - **Archive comparison:** `reminders/Evolution/The Next Phase Is Posthuman Self-Creation by Max More`. - **Promoted Reminder:** [[reminders/Evolution/The Next Phase Is Posthuman Self-Creation by Max More|The Next Phase Is Posthuman Self-Creation by Max More]]. - **Source lead:** https://maxmore.substack.com/p/beyond-the-machine-technology-and - **Verification:** primary/authoritative source checked; see production Reminder for final wording and context. - **Editorial note:** The same sentence appears as HB-046; verified against More’s republication of his 1997 talk with pronoun context. ### DHE-109 — Nick Bostrom and Rebecca Roache > “There are no compelling reasons to resist the use of genetic intervention to select the best children.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://nickbostrom.com/ethics/human-enhancement - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-110 — Nick Bostrom > “They want to use technology to give humans new capacities and to enhance the capacities we have.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://nickbostrom.com/views/oldcloning - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-111 — Peter Diamandis > “Why not have them start with the best possible genetic code as well?” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.diamandis.com/blog/designer-babies?hs_amp=true - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-112 — Jamie Metzl > “It would take a strong dose of ideology to actively choose the randomness built in to our traditional reproductive process.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://jamiemetzl.com/2015112would-i-genetically-enhance-my-own-children/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. - **Editorial note:** The Metzl candidate starts mid-sentence with altered capitalization; restore boundaries or mark an excerpt before promotion. ### DHE-113 — Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans > “But nonrandom, deliberate human genetic engineering is new, and it is a big deal.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.discovermagazine.com/with-gene-therapy-we-could-direct-our-own-evolution-26729 - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-114 — Lee Silver — passage > “But we're going to control our evolution. Not nature. Not the environment. We are going to control the evolution of our species.” - **Intake:** promoted. - **Archive comparison:** `reminders/Evolution/We Will Control the Evolution of Our Species by Lee Silver`. - **Promoted Reminder:** [[reminders/Evolution/We Will Control the Evolution of Our Species by Lee Silver|We Will Control the Evolution of Our Species by Lee Silver]]. - **Source lead:** https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/fertility/interviews/silver.html - **Verification:** primary/authoritative source checked; see production Reminder for final wording and context. - **Editorial note:** Exact PBS interview-transcript wording; the edited broadcast transcript differs. ### DHE-115 — James J. Hughes > “I see no virtue in the role of chance in conception, and great virtue in expanding choice.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://jamesjhughes.medium.com/embracing-change-with-all-four-arms-a-post-humanist-defense-of-genetic-engineering-2d8a575326b8 - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-116 — Kian Sadeghi — passage > “Some people don’t want you to have this choice, but it’s not their choice to make. It’s yours.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.inc.com/ben-sherry/kian-sadeghi-says-nucleus-genomics-can-optimize-embryos-for-intelligence/91198815 - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-117 — Kian Sadeghi > “This announcement also marks the first time a company has openly partnered with a couple to help them optimize their embryos based on intelligence.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kian-sadeghi-8273ba178_nucleus-embryo-is-here-genetic-optimization-activity-7336076840589029376-nt2- - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-118 — Kian Sadeghi — passage > “We call it genetic optimization. We help people have their best babies.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.kpbs.org/news/health/2026/05/06/these-companies-help-parents-try-to-pick-their-babies-traits-experts-are-wary - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-119 — Nathan Treff > “Trait selection is, without any doubt, well within the scope of reproductive medicine.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check; repeats DHE-081. - **Source lead:** https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-treff-phd-hcld-4802292 - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-120 — Noor Siddiqui > “Sex is for fun, Orchid and embryo screening is for babies.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check; repeats DHE-059. - **Source lead:** https://vi.web-platforms-vi.nyti.nyt.net/2025/08/07/opinion/genetics-children-noor-siddiqui.html - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-121 — Noor Siddiqui > “This is the future of how babies will be born!” - **Intake:** queued_source_check; repeats DHE-061. - **Source lead:** https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/16/orchid-polygenic-screening-embryos-fertility/?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-122 — Noor Siddiqui — passage > “Right now, it might be edgy for me to say, ‘Sex is for fun, and embryo screening is for babies,’ but I just think it's a statement of fact.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/orchids-noor-siddiqui-rigging-the-genetic-lottery-to/id1875709419?i=1000769991419 - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-123 — Julian Savulescu > “Rather than responding to irrational fears about designer babies, we should be encouraging people to use technology…” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2011/feb/07/hfea-reproductive-technology-research - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-124 — Julian Savulescu > “We should allow selection for non-disease genes even if this maintains or increases social inequality.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12058767/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-125 — Julian Savulescu and Guy Kahane > “Couples who decide to have a child have a significant moral reason to select the child…” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-8519.2008.00687.x - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-126 — John Harris > “If there is a discernible duty here it is surely to create the best possible child.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check; repeats DHE-013. - **Source lead:** https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/dec/02/why-human-gene-editing-must-not-be-stopped - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-127 — John Harris — passage > “Would it be unethical to do so? Would it be ethical not to do so?” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22238912/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-128 — John Harris > “Whatever people say, no one, I believe, actually thinks that there is anything in principle wrong with the enhancement of human beings.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.cbhd.org/dignitas-articles/genetic-enhancement-in-light-of-christian-theology - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-129 — Peter Singer > “If it leads to healthier, smarter people with better problem-solving abilities, that will be a good thing.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/sep/19/post385 - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-130 — Peter Singer — passage > “I think there's nothing in principle wrong with genetic enhancements… I don't think they're a reason for saying genetic enhancement is per se wrong.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://reason.com/2000/12/01/the-pursuit-of-happiness-peter/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-131 — Ronald Bailey > “Technologies—including genetic enhancement—are not ends; they are means for individuals to build the best lives they can for themselves and their families.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://reason.com/2003/10/01/enough-already-2/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-132 — Ronald Bailey — passage > “Whatever we think about them, enhancements are going to happen. … Genetic engineering; that will indeed one day happen.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-case-for-enhancing-people - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-133 — Anders Sandberg > “The freedom to modify one's body is essential not just to transhumanism, but also to any future democratic society.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118555927.ch5 - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-134 — Natasha Vita-More > “Human rights include individual freedom and the right to enhancement and the right never to be coerced to enhance.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://ipscell.com/2015/08/vita-more/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-135 — Kevin Warwick > “What is wrong with replacing imperfect bits of your body with artificial parts that will allow you to perform better?” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/06/no-death-and-an-enhanced-life-is-the-future-transhuman - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-136 — Riccardo Campa > “It is possible and desirable to switch from blind evolution to self-directed, self-conscious evolution.” - **Intake:** promoted. - **Archive comparison:** `reminders/Evolution/Transhumanism Calls for Self-Directed Evolution by Riccardo Campa`. - **Promoted Reminder:** [[reminders/Evolution/Transhumanism Calls for Self-Directed Evolution by Riccardo Campa|Transhumanism Calls for Self-Directed Evolution by Riccardo Campa]]. - **Source lead:** https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/bitstreams/e9b016a3-895d-4471-84c8-111cee1ceb4d/download - **Verification:** primary/authoritative source checked; see production Reminder for final wording and context. - **Editorial note:** Promoted with an opening ellipsis and original lower-case “it”; the packet had capitalized a mid-sentence word. ### DHE-137 — Italian Transhumanist Manifesto — passage > “We are ready to do what science makes possible today, namely to take our destiny in our hands.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://ieet.org/archive/articles/campa20080722.html - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-138 — Maxwell J. Mehlman > “It is inevitable that humans will attempt to control their evolutionary future.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/10341/transhumanist-dreams-and-dystopian-nightmares - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-139 — Gregory Pence — passage > “Could people be chosen in the same way? Would it be so terrible to allow parents to at least aim for a certain type?” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/internal-content/selected-quotes-advocates-species-altering-technologies - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-140 — Lester Thurow — passage > “Suppose parents could add 30 points to their children's IQ. Wouldn't you want to do it?” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://yourenglishpal.com/blog/esl-conversation-lesson-plan-genetic-engineering/ - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-141 — Gregory Stock > “We know that Homo sapiens is not the final word in primate evolution.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7603484M/Redesigning_Humans - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-142 — John Harris > “I propose both the wisdom and the necessity of intervening … by taking control of evolution and our future development.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/literature-science-and-public-policy/modern-synthesis/1A8EA605D58E91CFCC902FA3F24A74CA - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-143 — Arthur Caplan > “Many parents will leap at the chance to make their children smarter, fitter and prettier.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=3320 - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-144 — James Watson — passage > “Evolution can be just damn cruel… to say that we've got a perfect genome and there's some sanctity to it? … It's utter silliness.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.ratical.org/co-globalize/PoGEH.html - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-145 — Jonathan Anomaly > “You can stack the deck ahead of time, the genetic deck.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check; repeats DHE-068. - **Source lead:** https://podscripts.co/podcasts/modern-wisdom/1017-jonathan-anomaly-what-embryo-selection-means-for-humanity - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-146 — David Pearce > “One species of social primate has now evolved the capacity to master biotechnology, rewrite its own genetic source code…” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://www.hedweb.com/social-media/rr_files/saved_resource%282%29.html - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. - **Editorial note:** Same 2026 page as HB-052: its claudeusercontent asset links and new technical assertions require independent authorship/provenance and factual checks before attributing this wording to David Pearce. ### DHE-147 — David Pearce > “Our genetically enhanced successors won't grow old and die, but will be effectively immortal.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check; repeats DHE-031. - **Source lead:** https://www.everand.com/book/358909725/Can-Biotechnology-Abolish-Suffering - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-148 — Riccardo Campa > “Anthropotechnics—such as artificial selection, genetic engineering, and in vitro fertilization… are actively reshaping humankind and other species from a biological standpoint.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://philarchive.org/archive/PAREOT-8 - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-149 — Gregory Stock — passage > “Humanity is moving out of its childhood and into a gawky, stumbling adolescence.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-81720-5_9 - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check. ### DHE-150 — Julian Savulescu > “We are entering a new phase of human evolution—evolution under reason—where human beings are masters of their destiny.” - **Intake:** queued_source_check. - **Source lead:** https://a.osmarks.net/content/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2020-08/A/Directed_evolution_%28transhumanism%29 - **Verification:** wording, boundaries, attribution, and context pending primary/authoritative source check.