Brittany Murphy Quotes

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.

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

I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.

We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

The fact that healthier lifestyles and advances in medicine mean that we are living longer is actually something to be celebrated.

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years!

The pace at which fundamental discoveries of basic science are being uncovered is accelerating, as is the speed at which medical practice is being transformed by these inventions.

If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.

The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest average lifespans. Canada, Sweden, and Iceland - places with inhospitable winter weather - are frontrunners in sustaining human health and life.

Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

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 these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.

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

While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.

I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.

If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS.

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

Most of us believe that we are morally bound to live as long as we can and to help our neighbors do the same.

The reduction of the death rate is the principal statistical expression and index of human social progress.

Just 10 percent of the population—mainly the elderly—consumes about 80 percent of health care expenditures, primarily on expensive chronic illnesses and end-of-life costs. Historically, the longer lives that medical advances have given us have run exactly parallel to the increase in chronic illness and the explosion in costs. Can we afford to live longer—much less radically longer?

We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.

With modern medicine prolonging life no matter what condition you're in, it seems like we're working towards immortality by science.