George Martin Quotes

Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span.

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.

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

I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.

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

What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.

Don't get old, if you can avoid it.

I want to live until they find a cure for dying.

The way to make a worm live longer is probably quite different from making a human live longer.

In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.

Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.

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.

I would like to live longer, and I would like other people to live longer.

Someone will eventually succeed in this hunt for a longevity pill, and when they do, one of the greatest advances in the history of medicine will have been achieved.

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!

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.

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

If science can help us have the same quality of life we enjoyed when we were much younger, we should grasp it with both hands.

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.

With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.