Rather, you enter the most select club when one of your bomb designs makes it all the way to a test detonation. Most biotechnologists want to set off their own version of the big one. And these big boys simply want to stimulate consumer demand and control markets, whatever the consequences. In the marketplace that we've deified, few moral checks and balances remain. Our great research universities, for example, don't want ethical considerations to limit their own biotech royalties.
Character is as powerful as DNA in the shaping of destiny.
From the pond comes another primal insight. In Greek mythology, Narcissus is so beautiful that he is unable to love anyone else. Instead, seeing his image reflected in a still pool, he falls in love with it. But all his efforts to touch, to caress, to embrace that reflection cause it to distort and disappear. Unable to relinquish the image of his own perfection, Narcissus dwindles into the narcissus flower we know today.