Aubrey De Grey Quotes

Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.

There is no difference between saving lives and extending lives, because in both cases we are giving people the chance of more life.

It's not just about life, of course; it's about healthy life. Getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or not dying may be fun.

[Anti-aging therapies will] never be perfect, but we'll be able to fix the things that 200-year-olds die of before we have any 200-year-olds, and the same for 300 and 400 and so on.

The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.

If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.

What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.

The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.

Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is.

What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.

I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely.

I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.

I dont often meet people who want to suffer cardiovascular disease or whatever, and we get those things as a result of the lifelong accumulation of various types of molecular and cellular damage.

I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.

In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to go blind. It's called age-related macular degeneration.

Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an experiment that was interesting.

What I'm after is not living to 1, 000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.

Your future self is watching you right now through your memories.