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.

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.

There is no difference between saving lives and extending lives, because in both cases we are giving people the chance of more life.

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

The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.

Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.

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.