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The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.

The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.

I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

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

Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

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.

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing.