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27 quotes by Aubrey de Grey

Aubrey David Nicholas Jasper de Grey (/dəˈɡreɪ/; born 20 April 1963 ) is an English author and theoretician in the field of gerontology and the Chief Science Officer of the SENS Research Foundation. He is editor-in-chief of the academic journal Rejuvenation Research, author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging (1999) and co-author of Ending Aging (2007). He is known for his view that medical technology may enable human beings alive...
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The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get... →

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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.

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There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or... →

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There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we're seriously in... →

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The only difference between my work and the work of the whole medical profession is that I think we're in striking distance of keeping people so... →

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The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is... →

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Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be... →

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I don't often meet people who want to suffer cardiovascular disease or whatever, and we get those things as a result of the lifelong accumulation... →

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As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance.

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

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

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

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

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