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.

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.

[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.

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.

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.

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.

Being an entrepreneur is not about the money, its about the freedom.

He just summoned the dead with coke and cheeseburgers

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!

People who want their love easy don't really want love.

When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying.

...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.