Reproduction Quote by George C. Williams

The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.

— S. Jay Olshansky

“Age doesn't mean Maturity but Senescence”

— Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie

Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light.

— Marty Nemko

Accumulating years in the act of living is no guarantee of maturity. In fact, it is possible to be born, grow old and die…

— Tian Dayton

We've spent the last few millennia aware that senescence is horrible but knowing nevertheless that it's inevitable. We've had to find some mechanism to…

— Aubrey de Grey

No one can keep from aging, but there is no need to grow old.

— Art Linkletter

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

— Mitch Albom

Ageing is so many different things, and cells being able to self-renew is part of the picture but not all of it.

— Elizabeth Blackburn

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

— Horace

Most people believe that aging is universal but there are biological organisms that never age.

— Deepak Chopra

Once DNA acquires the ability to persist forever, the carriers become disposable. Essentially, our bodies are designed to last long enough to reproduce.

— S. Jay Olshansky

The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself to last for ages.…

— Ernst Haeckel