S. Jay Olshansky Quotes

One of my favorite books was 'The Book of Immortality' by Adam Leith Gollner, which talks about cheating death and life extension and frames with a story that David Copperfield finds a fountain of youth on an island he bought.

The media, of course, loves to make claims about the fountain of youth. Don't believe it. No one has it. But we're getting close.

When you extend life span, that's really something. That's hard to do.

Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it.

We have discovered the secret of life.

I want to live until they find a cure for dying.

I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.

I was reading about an age pill that has been developed which they claim will make you live longer. That is not for me.

Transhumanists are not fond of death. We would stop it if we could. To this end, we support research that holds out hope of a future in which humanity has defeated death.

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

Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won't die.

Maybe one day we will be able to take a pill that keeps us young and healthy much longer. I believe in my heart that this will happen.

I don't think it is about stalling or curing: it's about reversing. Curing gives you the impression of immortality. Stalling gives you the impression that you'll be 85 forever, which is not great.

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.

The only secret people keep is immortality.

We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.

The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life, to keep you from dying, to keep you from getting older, to rejuvenate you. I mean, that's everybody's wish. The fountain of youth is everybody's sought-after thing.

Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span.

I show people how to build their own immortality device.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing.

I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.