Humility does not mean saying that you are bad at tennis when you are really pretty good at it.
But we should not be deceived: saying yes to cloned embryos, even for research, means saying yes, at least in principle, to an ever-expanding genetic mastery of one generation over the next.
Rather is explaining "in the background" which means not revealing source, "deep background" which means not even revealing where a source might be located, and "off the record" which means saying nothing at all.
"Parents are suddenly saying 'no' and their kids are saying, 'What do you mean?' " said Robert D. Manning, an economist at the Rochester Institute of Technology and author of "Credit Card Nation".
If saying no at times means saying yes to your wellbeing, don't be afraid to do so.
"Yes," to one thing means saying "no," to everything else at that moment.
"We are committed to moving toward a low-carbon economy and we need to look at what that means," said McKenna at a press conference today in Paris.
"This is a new policy and we are seeking clarification of what it means," said Dean Clifford, a director at Great Marlborough.
"I didn't know what it meant," said Kent Thornburg, a physiologist at the Oregon Health & Science University, who encountered Barker for the first time at a conference in 1989.
"It's such a big number that it's sort of hard to grasp what it means," said Ruben Juanes, a geoscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
