S. Jay Olshansky Quotes

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.

As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.

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.

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

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.

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.

Some grow young, some grow cold...

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 think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.

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

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.

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.

The reality is the technology exists now to extend life and have people live healthier, happier lives. Not to be kind of immortal - that's not what I'm talking about.

Anti-aging is an extremely under-explored field.

We have discovered the secret of life.

Telomerase Activation is the single most promising approach to reversing the effects of aging.

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

That there is as yet no drug for immortality - or, for that matter, for muscle growth in the infirm - does not mean that immortality is theoretically or even technically impossible.

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.