The Black Rose

“The dramatic advances of the past few decades have led to the discovery of DNA and to the decipherment of the universal hereditary code the age-old language of the living cell. With this understanding will come the control of processes that have known only the mindless discipline of natural selection for two billion years. And now the impact of science will strike straight home because the biological world includes us. We will surely come to the time when man will have the power to alter specifically and consciously his very genes. This will be a new event in the universe. The prospect is to me an awesome potential for deliverance or equally for disaster.”

--- Robert Shinsheimer, 1966