Joshua Lederberg, the 1958 Nobel laureate in physiology and medicine, wrote 30 years ago, "The fearful reaction to genetic engineering is no different from the worry and ridicule with which people greeted Charles Darwin's announcement that humans had evolved from apes."
早在三十年前，諾貝爾醫學獎得主約書雅．萊德伯格就說：「人們對基因工程的驚恐反應，和當年達爾文宣佈人是由猿猴所進化時，人們的焦慮和嘲弄是一樣的。」