Paraphrased from the 2017 columnist:

"Too often, gene advances provoke hysterical responses about an imminent race of super-babies. We saw it when in vitro fertilization was pioneered, when three-parent IVF was done and now with genetic editing. We need to keep our wits about us, to consider the promise of this technology as much, if not more, than the potential perils."

Paraphrased from the 1930 activist Edith Keeler in Star Trek:

"The years ahead are worth living for. One day soon man is going to be able to harness incredible energies, maybe even the atom. Atomic energies that could ultimately power cities and hurl us to other worlds in some sort of spaceship. And the men that reach out into space and use the atom will do good, there is no need for hysterical predictions of a planet whose nations become armed with thousands of nuclear bombs designed for destruction. We need to keep our wits about us, and consider the promise more than the perils, the future of the atom is good."