What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.

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 think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely.

What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.

In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to go blind. It's called age-related macular degeneration.

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.

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.