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… — 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 be a life where there’s more time for leisure - for enriching each other’s lives rather than just running to stand still. In other words, more holiday time! So a holiday is absolutely the appropriate way… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share
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
