Robert Winston

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral…

— Robert Winston

I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they really are, and I…

— Robert Winston

Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the…

— Robert Winston

Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether…

— Robert Winston

Following 25 children for the TV series 'Child of Our Time' has been extraordinary. The BBC's original plan was to commemorate the…

— Robert Winston

I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deeply in…

— Robert Winston

I don't think you can impose limits on science because the very nature of homo sapiens is that he - she -…

— Robert Winston

When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a…

— Robert Winston

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

— Robert Winston

Carbon dioxide is unusual because it doesn't go through the usual three phases of matter, from solid to liquid to gas, but…

— Robert Winston

However you define God, and whether you believe in God or not, the world we live in has been shaped by the…

— Robert Winston

I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam…

— Robert Winston

As parents, can we counter the effect of television violence? One worrying feature in Britain is that so many TV sets are…

— Robert Winston

I'm a traditional Jew with an orthodox background, and it informs much of my approach to science. Of course I think it's…

— Robert Winston

Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you rather meet the doctor than…

— Robert Winston

Much as I like and admire Richard Dawkins, I do think that to call a book 'The God Delusion' is very worrying…

— Robert Winston

I don't think we will find a cure for all cancers in the next 50 years let alone 20. I think it's…

— Robert Winston

Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured…

— Robert Winston

Far too many scientists, including my good friend Richard Dawkins, present science as the truth and present it as factually correct. And…

— Robert Winston

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

— Robert Winston

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world…

— Robert Winston

It is possible that strong levels of belief in God, gods, spirits or the supernatural might have given our ancestors considerable comforts…

— Robert Winston

It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be…

— Robert Winston

It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't developed in an instant, that it became gradually the…

— Robert Winston

I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.

— Robert Winston