All Robert Winston Quotes
- It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress. Important
- My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved. Behaved
- My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in… Communist
- Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man. Aggression
- Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back. Babies
- Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you rather meet the doctor than a machine? Consultant
- Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people. Always Underestimate
- There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative. Any
- You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human. Animal
- Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine.… Among
- I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they really are, and I think one of… Appear
- I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible,… Bread
- It's extraordinary to think that if you walked into a room and said you had never heard of Hamlet, you would be regarded as a… Extraordinary
- The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our society. Ever since… Associated
- When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a degree of introspection.… Both
- Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying… Develop
- Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation.… Activist
- Both in Britain and America, huge publicity has been given to stem cells, particularly embryonic stem cells, and the potential they offer. Of course, the… America
- Carbon dioxide is unusual because it doesn't go through the usual three phases of matter, from solid to liquid to gas, but it goes straight… Carbon
- Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was… Any