Aubrey de Grey Quotes

One of the things that Dumbledore is always trying to do is to empower the kids to take ownership of issues and be creative and involved. That's what we see today. We need to empower America to be a creator of its solutions going forward in a new, very confusing world.

An open-minded person running a business might catch a problem faster than a closed-minded person. And when they identify a problem, they can fix it much faster.

We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology, together with our creativity and our curiosity, to solve the world's problems.

The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.

If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.

I'm a great believer in our ability to come up with the ideas necessary to solve the big questions. I have less confidence that we'll be able to find a consensus about which ones are right without experiment.

Science is a self-sufficient activity.

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.

Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

Compromise is the key element. The more constraints you have, the more compromise you have to have. But, I personally believe that, when that happens, you have to get more creative, and you end up with something that is even better.

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.

If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then you try to do more basic science and applied science until you get it.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Never bet against science!

Most decisions are not binary, and there are usually better answers waiting to be found if you do the analysis and involve the right people.

We need students to understand how the world has changed and be prepared to make contributions in a new way.

I believe that the ability to innovate and to be creative are teachable processes. There are ways by which people can systematically innovate or systematically become creative.

There has no doubt to be fundamental research in science, but applied research is equally important for new improvements and changes in our techniques.

Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.