Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.
If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.
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.
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.
[Anti-aging therapies will] never be perfect, but we'll be able to fix the things that 200-year-olds die of before we have any 200-year-olds, and the same for 300 and 400 and so on.
There is no difference between saving lives and extending lives, because in both cases we are giving people the chance of more life.
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.
Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is.
Celebrating the future is about celebrating a better world: a world in which everyone's life is easier and their health is maintained longer. It’ll be a life where there’s more time for leisure - for enriching each other’s lives rather than just running to stand still. In other words, more holiday time! So a holiday is absolutely the appropriate way to help us focus on it and make it a reality soon.
What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.
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.
Theres no such thing as ageing gracefully. I dont meet people who want to get Alzheimers disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.
I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.
What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.
I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely.
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