45 Quotes by Aubrey de Grey

Your future self is watching you right now through your memories.

I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely.

There is no difference between saving lives and extending lives, because in both cases we are giving people the chance of more life.

Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That’s all that ageing is.

Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.

The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.

It’s not just about life, of course; it’s about healthy life. Getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or not dying may be fun.

If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.

In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to go blind. It’s called age-related macular degeneration.