It's all a bit primitive. Animalistic. Natural. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I suppose. I know a woman who takes great pride in being primitive and animalistic. It seems to work for her. [But for all that he respects Leela, he still can't help but feel that Time Lord ways are just better somehow.]

[He purses his lips as he thinks about how to explain his thoughts.]

We are technological. Not in the sense that robots are, it's more sophisticated than that. We use technology to manipulate and program biology, to harness and control nature with science rather than be left to nature's whims. In some ways, we're now more like our machines--the most advanced of which are also often living--than we are like the native wildlife. The line between Time Lord biology and technology is a thin one.