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Aubrey de Grey
English
Author
Born:
Apr 20
,
1963
Body
People
Problem
Science
Work
You
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The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.
Aubrey de Grey
You
Way
Evidence
Astray
Correctly
Reliable
Direct
Data
Most
Likely
Dead
Because
Scientific
Misunderstand
Scientific Method
Least
Method
Led
Get
Ends
Your
Uses
Actually
There is no difference between saving lives and extending lives, because in both cases we are giving people the chance of more life.
Aubrey de Grey
Life
People
Giving
Saving
No Difference
Cases
More
Both
Between
Because
Difference
Lives
Extending
Chance
Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.
Aubrey de Grey
Work
Key
Enthusiasm
Research
Faster
Suitable
Follow-Up
Directly
Advances
New
Also
Stimulate
Scientists
Achieved
Influencing
Interested
Public
Far
Ingredient
Explore
Appealed
Now
Funding
The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.
Aubrey de Grey
Best
Opportunity
Duty
Live
Others
Our
Ability
Give
Most
Die
Choose
Fundamental
Fundamental Right
Right
What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.
Aubrey de Grey
Death
People
Long
Living
Want
After
Avoid
Letting
The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.
Aubrey de Grey
Wisdom
Field
Research
Think
Ability
Given
Outside
Box
Handicap
Being
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Biggest
If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.
Aubrey de Grey
Work
You
People
Biology
Find
Winners
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Fair
Know
Look
How
Prize
Who
I don't often meet people who want to suffer cardiovascular disease or whatever, and we get those things as a result of the lifelong accumulation of various types of molecular and cellular damage.
Aubrey de Grey
People
Result
Whatever
Meet
Types
Those
Various
Lifelong
Accumulate
Get
Disease
Often
Cellular
Want
Molecular
Who
Suffer
Things
Cardiovascular
Damage
Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.
Aubrey de Grey
Science
Communication
Big
Wikipedia
Sign
Diminishing
Importance
Help
Shows
Some things tend not to work so well for science - things that rely on substantial written contributions by key experts are a case in point - but even there I tend to keep an open mind, because it may just be a case of finding the right formula.
Aubrey de Grey
Work
Science
Key
Mind
Just Be
Finding
Some
Some Things
Case
Rely
Tend
Point
Open
Written
Open Mind
Well
Because
Contributions
May
Just
Substantial
Experts
Formula
Even
Keep
Right
Things
I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.
Aubrey de Grey
Science
Problem
Medicine
Chief
Officer
Aging
Works
Foundation
Application
My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and it can be subjected to maintenance and repair in the same way as a simple machine, like a car.
Aubrey de Grey
Complicated
Simple
Car
Approach
Our
Way
Machine
Maintenance
Like
Principle
None
Repair
Subjected
Very
Same
Straightforward
Body
Less
Start
We've spent the last few millennia aware that senescence is horrible but knowing nevertheless that it's inevitable. We've had to find some mechanism to put it out of our minds so we can get on with our miserably short lives.
Aubrey de Grey
Inevitable
Few
Our
Minds
Spent
Out
Find
Some
Horrible
Had
Put
Nevertheless
Knowing
Get
Short
Mechanism
Aware
Lives
Millennia
Last
The whole point of cryopreserving only one's head is based on the idea that one can simply grow in the laboratory an entire new body, without a head, and stick it onto the cryopreserved head.
Aubrey de Grey
Entire
Only
Point
Onto
Head
Simply
Idea
New
Stick
Without
Laboratory
Body
Whole
Grow
Based
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