45 Quotes by Aubrey de Grey

What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.

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 put it out of our minds so we can get on with our miserably short lives.

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

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.

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

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

As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance.

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

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.