Robert Winston Quotes

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.

I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get repeated publicity.

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.

A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.

My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.

I went to school with butterflies of fear every day for years - from primary school onwards - not just worried about being bullied by classmates, but by teachers.

Having a child is arguably the most important thing you do in life.

Whether you're religious or not, there is a real need for other people's religious positions to be treated with the upmost respect.

My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.

Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.

However pragmatic you are, it is very demanding being a new parent.

I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.

I like travelling on my own. It means I'm completely free to think about what's around me.

I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.

My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.

There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.

When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university.

You can't be judgmental about babies. They are all have different needs. I was left with an enduring hatred of cheese because it was forced down me when I was young.

Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.'

I don't think we will find a cure for all cancers in the next 50 years let alone 20. I think it's foolishness to say that.

That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape our core values in the past few centuries.

It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.

Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you rather meet the doctor than a machine?

There needs to be clearer communication for the public avout how valuable it [animal testing] is

You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.