I try to do the right thing, Holden. But there are times when it's not obvious what that is. I agree with you," Holden said. "Right up to the part wh… - James S. A. Corey

You're not picking a fight with the things that made the protomolecule. You're picking a fight with whatever killed them. Orders of magnitude above the things that were orders of magnitude above us. You've got to know this is going to escalate if we keep using these technologies.
We were always going to keep using these technologies. That was inevitable the moment we opened the gates," Duarte said. "If you've studied any history at all, you know that. Never in human history have we discovered something useful and then chosen not to use it.

Nothing humans can touch goes unmodified.

“Thank you for your time, Doctor. My door is always open to you.”
It was, she thought, an ironic way to tell her to leave.