"It's not just about life, of course; it's about healthy life. Getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or not dying may be fun."

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Source : "A roadmap to end aging". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2005.

Aubrey de Grey

#Fun Quotes #Motivation Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“It took me a very long time to realize that inherently the materials have this beautiful quality without me having to impose meaning onto them.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology”
“In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.”
“Sometimes when things break, you can hold them together for a while with string or glue or tape. Sometimes, nothing will hold whatâ€™s broken, and the pieces fly all over, and though you think you might be able to find them all again, one or two will always be missing. I flew apart. I broke. I shattered like a crystal vase dropped on a concrete floor, and pieces of me scattered all over. Some of them I was glad to see go. Some I never wanted to see again.”
“Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because it is founded on a much higher degree of realism--has at its disposal more means of manipulating reality and of modifying it from within. The film-maker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last the equal of the novelist”
“At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.”
“Investors have to remember: corporate profits are going up, but stocks are going up faster. How can that continue indefinitely? Investors can only earn what companies themselves can earn; the government or the markets themselves don't kick anything in. How can you get anything more out of a farm than what it grows?”
“My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.”

Source : The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 1998.

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