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Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is.
~ Aubrey de Grey
Accumulate
Ageing
Body
Clearly
Damage
Simply
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As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance.
~ Aubrey de Grey
Ageing
As Far As
Concerned
Distance
Far
Humanity
Problem
Serious
Some
Worst
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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
Accumulate
Amount
Basically
Body
Comprehensive
Damage
Different
Different Types
Does
Happen
Just
Machinery
Molecular
Number
Small
Types
Vast
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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.
~ Aubrey de Grey
Ability
About
Been
Both
Demonstrating
Desire
Environment
Ever
Fire
Fix
Inherent
Invented
Like
Our
Ourselves
Since
Things
Wheel
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I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.
~ Aubrey de Grey
Healthy
Keeping
Longevity
People
Work
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I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.
~ Aubrey de Grey
Aging
Application
Chief
Foundation
Medicine
Officer
Problem
Science
Works
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If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.
~ Aubrey de Grey
Changing
God
His
Image
Just
Just One
Made
More
Our
Our World
Playing
Us
Way
Which
World
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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.
~ Aubrey de Grey
Biology
Fair
Find
How
Know
Look
Nobel
Nobel Prize
People
Prize
Who
Winners
Work
You
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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.
~ Aubrey de Grey
Accumulate
Back
Blind
Causes
Eventually
Eye
Go
Junk
Type
Us
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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.
~ Aubrey de Grey
About
Actually
Because
Career
Done
Entire
Entire Career
Experiment
Exposure
Get
Interesting
Media
Most
Scientists
Serious
Twice
Will
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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.
~ Aubrey de Grey
Approach
Body
Car
Complicated
Less
Like
Machine
Maintenance
None
Our
Principle
Repair
Same
Simple
Start
Straightforward
Subjected
Very
Way
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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.
~ Aubrey de Grey
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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Some things tend not to work so well for science - things that rely on substantial written contributions by key experts are a case in point - but even there I tend to keep an open mind, because it may just be a case of finding the right formula.
~ Aubrey de Grey
Because
Case
Contributions
Even
Experts
Finding
Formula
Just
Just Be
Keep
Key
May
Mind
Open
Open Mind
Point
Rely
Right
Science
Some
Some Things
Substantial
Tend
Things
Well
Work
Written
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The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.
~ Aubrey de Grey
Aim
Disabled
Disease
End
Extending
Frailty
Life
Passed
Period
Postpone
Shorten
State
Thereby
Which
While
Whole
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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.
~ Aubrey de Grey
Ability
Being
Biggest
Box
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Field
Given
Handicap
Outside
Research
Think
Wisdom
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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.
~ Aubrey de Grey
Ability
Best
Choose
Die
Duty
Fundamental
Fundamental Right
Give
Live
Most
Opportunity
Others
Our
Right
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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.
~ Aubrey de Grey
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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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
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.
~ Aubrey de Grey
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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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.
~ Aubrey de Grey
Actually
Against
Ageing
Annoy
Apathy
Becomes
Best
Course
Declining
Does
Enormous
Fatalism
Finding
Making
Me
Nothing
Now
Part
Problem
Range
Seriously
Work
Wrong
Years
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