45 Quotes by Aubrey de Grey

Theres nothing wrong with making the best of ones declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that were seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.

If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you’ll find a fair smattering of people who don’t know how to work a pipette.

The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

I don’t work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.

Basically, the body does have a vast amount of inbuilt anti-ageing machinery; it’s just not 100% comprehensive, so it allows a small number of different types of molecular and cellular damage to happen and accumulate.

Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.

I’m the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.

My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and it can be subjected to maintenance and repair in the same way as a simple machine, like a car.

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