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

Aubrey de Grey

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Aubrey de Grey
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: April 20
Author
Computer Scientist
Gerontologist
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London
England
Aubrey David Nicholas Jasper de Grey
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The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.
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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.
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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.
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What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.
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