Aging Quote by S. Jay Olshansky Download Open image “Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.” — S. Jay Olshansky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aging Been Extension Goal Goals Never Nor Really Science Should
The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
The fact is that nothing in gerontology even comes close to fulfilling the promise of dramatically extended lifespan, in spite of bold claims to… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
Longevity has never bothered me at all, I have studied longevity for years. — Frank Buckles Copy Share Image
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else. — Katharine Graham Copy Share Image
Most people believe that aging is universal but there are biological organisms that never age. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
With modern medicine prolonging life no matter what condition you're in, it seems like we're working towards immortality by science. — Bill Pullman Copy Share Image
A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa. — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
As soon as a handful of scientists come up with an intervention shown to influence aging in other species, they begin selling it as… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you can extend… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible. — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life. — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease, cancer, stroke,… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from becoming too talkative, and especially from the unfortunate habit of thinking that I must say something on every subject and at every opportunity. Release me from the idea that I must straighten out other peoples' affairs.… — Anonymous Copy Share
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint. Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art. After I had cancer, I lived my… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
“You could see the signs of female aging as diseased, especially if you had a vested interest in making women too see them your way. Or you could see that a woman is healthy if she lives to grow old; as she thrives, she reacts and speaks and shows emotion, and grows into her face. Lines trace her thought and… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
