The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

by Walter Isaacson

“Small meetings, where unpublished data and ideas can be shared and everyone helps everyone, can change the world,”

“Right now you are punching below your weight. You’re not taking the kinds of projects that a student like you is capable of. Why else do we do science? We do it to go after big questions and take on risks. If you don’t try things, you’re never going to have a breakthrough.”

Policymakers sometimes mistakenly think that they have a voice about whether germinal technologies will come into being,” he wrote. “They do not.”

“The road to Brave New World is paved with sentimentality—yes, even with love and charity,” he wrote. “Have we enough sense to turn back?”