Quotes by Aubrey de Grey

“Your future self is watching you right now through your memories.”

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

“Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.”

“What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.”

“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 ...”

“If we are to bring about real regenerative therapies that will benefit not just future generations, but those of us who are alive today, we must encourage scientists to work on the problem of aging”

“I define aging as the set of accumulated side effects from metabolism that eventually kills us.”

“When I was much younger I had a couple of relationships with women who were very smart but, being teenaged, had not had time to demonstrate it. It was important to them that I not compliment them t...”

“It is at the same level of women in World War II sleeping with Nazis to get information. It is a war against aging here. You have to persuade people to give money. That is honestly who I am. I am t...”

“I am at last in a position to apologise - which I gladly do publicly - to Laura Deming for my email to her in 2012, about which I had forgotten until the investigator reminded me of it. As STAT rep...”