Benjamin Franklin Quotes

I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.

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 do I mean when I say 'suspended animation'? It is the process by which animals de-animate, appear dead and then can wake up again without being harmed. OK, so here is the sort of big idea: If you look out at nature, you find that as you tend to see suspended animation, you tend to see immortality.

You see, I'm also a futurist. I dream about the world 50, 100, maybe even 1,000 years in the future. But I also realize I'm probably not going to see it. However, I wouldn't mind having at least a copy of myself see the future, maybe 50, 100, 1,000 years into the future. It would be a fantastic ride.

I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.

My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.

If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.

I will come again, and I will be millions.

I like looking at a future where we're expanding our creativity and brightening our lives. I believe that eventually we'll get to a point where we'll be able to live indefinitely through our technology.

Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

Extending our lives, extending our creativity, opening up the mysteries of the brain. All those things that are really exciting - that's kind of the basis of 'Neon Future,' and that's why I interviewed Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Grey.

If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.

As long as a character doesn't die, the character can always come back.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.

I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead.

The fact that in America bread lasts so long. You buy bread, and then it's bread forever - it's Forever Bread!

I'm interested in the ideas that sound a little crazy, such as radical life extension, curing cancer, being able to create a simulation of the human brain and map every neuron.

How do I keep young? Haven't you heard? I sleep every night in the deep freezer!

I did some research on cryonics and cryogenics, but I kept it to a minimum because I didn't want the science part of the novel to overshadow the fiction. Being medically accurate wasn't my main goal.

When our memories outweigh our dreams we become old. And America is forever young.

I'd rather there wasn't an afterlife, really. I'd much rather not be me for thousands of years.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

There are some people that are trying to cure death, this tech immortality... That seems mentally ill.

I actually think it will be possible one day to be immortal.