Aubrey de Grey Quotes

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.

I believe in the sanctity of human life, from the womb to the tomb.

If you judge by what people do to improve their health, they value their lives highly. So adding to your period of vitality is something that most people would certainly do. If there was a pill that would do that, it's clear that everyone would take it.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

The reality is if you were going to die tomorrow, and someone offered you another 10 years, most people would take those 10 years.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarged and enhanced the quality and length of human life, we must not lose sight as to what we are trying to accomplish.

In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.

I will always support legislation which respects and values life.

I don't want a few extra weeks of life at enormous cost, for example, when it comes to the end.

I realized not long ago that by the time I leave this Earth, no matter when it is I will have officially only spent approximately 14 years of my life where I did not have to deal with cancer.

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

Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.

A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.

What would it be like to live 500 years? Healthy years, of course; no one wants to live 500 years in a coma on a respirator. But reasonably healthy all that time? That would be awesome!

Health care has not so much slowed the ageing process as much as it has slowed the dying process.

Saving lives is the top morality.

If you ask the American people to choose, between public health and the economy, then it's no contest. No American is going to say, accelerate the economy, at the cost of human life. Because no American is going to say how much a life is worth. Job one has to be save lives. That has to be the priority.

My thesis topic was 'The value of a human life.' I asked people a question: 'Suppose you had some risk, a one in a thousand risk of dying - how much would you pay to eliminate it?'

I value human life. I don't want to see human life taken away unnecessarily.

Safeguarding life at every stage is a solemn responsibility, and one Hoosiers entrusted me to uphold.

I think life is too sacred to ever take it in any circumstances, even for the cure of a disease or something like that.

In medicine you go from dying to chronically ill. You don't go from dying to better than you ever knew you could be. That just doesn't happen.