Aubrey de Grey Quotes

Your body is your machine - you need your fuel.

People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain.

Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine must have care and its different parts must be adjusted properly. No machine has ever approached the human machine. When it is right, it is in health.

As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one.

I was fascinated by each area I studied, whether neurology, urology or surgery.

I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

The grist for my mill is the human body and the art of healing.

Medicine is so fascinating.

You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.

I fix the human chassis, I tune up human engines, I recharge human batteries, and I adjust human transmissions.

Our health care system is terribly broken… Health comes from much more than health care and health care is much more than hospitals. We do a good job on treatment and a terrible job on prevention.

People don't realize it, but you've got to take care of it. The vocal cord is the smallest muscle in the body, and it gets more use than any other muscle.

I am listening more to my body and maintaining it.

As you get older, we have more opportunities, more things going on in our lives that we take it away from basketball and our bodies. If you continue to put the same energy into your body, into your craft, I think you'll be all right.

I'm taking care of my body, getting my treatment, I'm in the weight room... I'm doing everything I can to stay healthy, and hopefully the genetics kind of take over from there.

If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies.

Let's face it, the human body is like a condominium apartment. The thing that keeps you really enjoying it is the maintenance. There's a tremendous amount of daily, weekly, monthly and yearly work that has to be done. From showering to open heart surgery, we're always doing something to ourselves. If your body was a used car, you wouldn't buy it.

Just as you maintain your home, your car, your garden, you should look after your greatest gift: your body.

Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.

Father made the most popular cars in the world; I want to make the best.

The human body is like a condominium. The thing that keeps you from really enjoying it is the maintenance.

If you have a car and you win a race, you cannot just settle for that. You must try and make the car better. We're a good car but you always want a bigger engine.

The Ford Falcon holds the proud title of Slowest Car Ever Built. In certain areas of the country you can go to a stoplight and find Falcon drivers who pressed down on their accelerators in 1963 and are still waiting for their cars to move.

In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car.