Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an experiment that was interesting.

I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.

If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.

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.

Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.

Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is.

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.