Foundation Quotes by Aubrey de Grey

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

— Aubrey de Grey

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

I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely.

— Aubrey de Grey

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

— Aubrey de Grey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Aubrey de Grey

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