Robert Lanza

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.

Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.

Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change.

Perhaps, if science is clever enough to see, it will realize that religion may not be too far off with its concrete imagery; and that relative to the supreme creator, we humans are much like the microorganisms we scrutinize under the microscope.

We have these words 'space' and 'time,' but you can't touch them. They're not objects, they're not things, they go forever. Space and time are really tools of animal sense perception, the way we organize and construct information.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering the brain, we realize that they are not woven together automatically, any more than the information is inside a computer.

Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.

In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we'd simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney. In fact this has already been done.

We don't have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy?

I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.

Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.