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

~Aubrey De Grey

Topics: Because Between Both Cases Chance Difference Extending Giving Life Lives More No Difference People Saving

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There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's 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.

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Topics: Accept Actually Afflict Ageing Alzheimer Any Arthritis Bad Better Cancer Disease Elderly Get Gracefully Just Meet Other People Thing Things Want Who You

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The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.

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Topics: Actually Astray Because Correctly Data Dead Direct Ends Evidence Get Least Led Likely Method Misunderstand Most Reliable Scientific Scientific Method Uses Way You Your

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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.

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Topics: Ability Being Biggest Box Conventional Conventional Wisdom Field Given Handicap Outside Research Think Wisdom

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Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.

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Topics: Achieved Advances Also Appealed Directly Enthusiasm Explore Far Faster Follow-Up Funding Influencing Ingredient Interested Key New Now Public Research Scientists Stimulate Suitable Work

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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.

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Topics: Ability Best Choose Die Duty Fundamental Give Live Most Opportunity Others Our Right

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Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an experiment that was interesting.

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Topics: About Actually Because Career Done Entire Entire Career Experiment Exposure Get Interesting Media Most Scientists Serious Twice Will

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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.

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Topics: Biology Fair Find How Know Look Nobel Nobel Prize People Prize Who Winners Work You

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I don't often meet people who want to suffer cardiovascular disease or whatever, and we get those things as a result of the lifelong accumulation of various types of molecular and cellular damage.

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Topics: Accumulate Cardiovascular Damage Disease Get Lifelong Meet Molecular Often People Result Suffer Things Those Types Various Want Whatever Who

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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.

~Aubrey De Grey

Topics: Accumulate Amount Basically Body Comprehensive Damage Different Different Types Does Happen Just Machinery Molecular Number Small Types Vast

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: April 20th, 1963

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