Age Quote by Evelyn Waugh

With modern medicine prolonging life no matter what condition you're in, it seems like we're working towards immortality by science.

— Bill Pullman

“optimistic, science-worshipping culture wants to medicalize aging and make it nothing more than a collection of specific diseases that medicine can prevent or fix,…

— Katy Butler

“In truth, so far modern medicine hasn’t extended our natural life span by a single year. Its great achievement has been to save us…

— Yuval Noah Harari

We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“The art of medicine is long, Hippocrates tells us, "and life is short; opportunity fleeting; the experiment perilous; judgment flawed.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond…

— Richard Lamm

Medical science is adding years to our lives, but it is up to us to add life to our years.

— Vikrant Parsai

“The belief in immortality is based on the strong instinct of self-preservation that calls forth an insatiable longing for longevity. It is another form…

— Kaiten Nukariya

The predicate of modern medicine is, 'We invalidate your humanity, but we give you immortality, so you have to shut up and listen to…

— David Milch

My idea in Half the Kingdom was simply, or not so simply perhaps, that medical science has given us twenty extra years of life.…

— Lore Segal

Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.

— Roger Caras