Aubrey de Grey Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

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

“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 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.”

“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.”

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

“Some things tend not to work so well for science - things that rely on substantial written contributions by key experts are a case in point - but even there I tend to keep an open mind, because it may just be a case of finding the right formula.”

“My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and it can be subjected to maintenance and repair in the same way as a simple machine, like a car.”