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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

My need to parent is so much bigger, sometimes, than my children’s need for parenting.

All great religions hold the power to enslave & the power to enlighten...

It's as if tendencies that seem most deeply rooted in our minds, most private and singular, have come in as spores on the prevailing wind, looking for any likely place to land, any welcome.

Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!

I don't want to die, but I'm ok putting it all out there for the most beautiful expression of my life.

Suddenly question number four popped into my mind. Have you thought about how this relationship will end?

Everybody starts with a clean slate only altered by unnecessary hate.

It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.

There is good and bad in everyone.