Maybe one day we will be able to take a pill that keeps us young and healthy much longer. I believe in my heart that this will happen.

In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.

Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.

It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.

The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.

You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't, you need a gene to be active for it.

Maybe one day we will be able to take a pill that keeps us young and healthy much longer. I believe in my heart that this will happen.