Quotes by Aubrey de Grey

About Aubrey de Grey:

Aubrey David Nicholas Jasper de Grey is an English author and biomedical gerontologist, currently 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 today to live to lifespans far in excess of any existing authenticated cases.
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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 healthy that at 90 they'll carry on waking up in the same physical state as they were at the age of 30, a...

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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 range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of...

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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.

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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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Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.

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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.

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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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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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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 passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.

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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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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.

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I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.

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Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an experiment that was interesting.

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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 led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.

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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 of various types of molecular and cellular damage.

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Basically, the body does have a vast amount of inbuilt anti-ageing machinery; it's just not 100% comprehensive, so it allows a small number of different types of molecular and cellular damage to happen and accumulate.

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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 arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept...

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

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

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The whole point of cryopreserving only one's head is based on the idea that one can simply grow in the laboratory an entire new body, without a head, and stick it onto the cryopreserved head.

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Author Bio

  • NameAubrey de Grey
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • BornApril 20, 1963
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionBiologist