We've spent the last few millennia aware that senescence is horrible but knowing nevertheless that it's inevitable. We've had to find some mechanism to put it out of our minds so we can get on with our miserably short lives. — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
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. — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is. — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging. — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely. — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image. — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
Celebrating the future is about celebrating a better world: a world in which everyone's life is easier and their health is maintained longer. It’ll… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
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… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to go blind.… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly. — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to. — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance. — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
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… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
