S. Jay Olshansky Quotes

I'd be happy to live till 80 as long as I was comfortable and in good health. Mind you, ask me again on the eve of my 80th birthday. Even so, I hope we don't all start living to be 120. I'm not sure I'd cope with another 60 years.

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.

The public is absolutely fascinated by aging. They don't want to get old. And you can see - read Shakespeare. Read the sonnets. They're all about aging.

I don't see any absolute biological limit on human age.

I am confident that when I get really old, the human lifespan will be extended.

I want to live to be 120. That's when I will start worrying about my age.

All diseases run into one, old age.

I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential.

Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.

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

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

Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible.

As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance.

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 myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick.

If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.

Unfortunately, because aging is so common and natural, we tend to think of it as destiny or something we should accept.

So aging is really just the way we deteriorate over time. Lifespan on the other hand is how long we live. We typically refer to that as longevity.

Most people think that aging is fatal and scientific data shows that that's not true.

[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.

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

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

We're not getting any younger.