But as we consider how to use new discoveries, we must also not retreat from our oldest and most cherished human values.
Over more than two decades, W.H.O.'s 193 member states have reaffirmed the view that "trade" in human organs is "inconsistent with the most basic human values and contravenes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the spirit of the W.H.O.
According to Bostrom, artificial intelligence will arrive towards the end of the century, rapidly outstrip human intelligence, and "shape the world according to its preferences", which are likely to "involve the complete destruction of human life and most plausible human values.
One of the "majestic horizons" identified by Clinton in June 2000 represented a call for justice specifically, ethical respect for "our oldest and most cherished human values" to ensure that genome science benefits "all citizens of the world" and prevents discrimination.
Opposition to three of the most important human values suggests a vision of capitalism notably appropriate for our reactionary times.
For the Lantos Foundation, the choice is simple: we cannot allow our nation's most fundamental human values to be sidelined in the interest of strategic and economic goals.
The offering of this meals represent one of the most treasurable human values- the responsibility we have for each other's wellbeing- even if that starts with a warm plate of food.
Asked whether it is care or justice that is the most fundamental human value, Held does not hesitate to answer that it is care.
Schama and his producers have understood, and made the most of, democratic human values of shared memories and myths, the invocation of mysteries, the Romantic necessity for hearing secret harmonies that is latent in us all.
He wanted to restore these ideas to public discourse, rather than the limp word "values"; for most human beings, he believed, had a moral sense and tried to live by it.
