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My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.
Robert Winston
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Robert Winston
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 15
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That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape our core values in the past few centuries.
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There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.
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I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious - which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences.
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Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?
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My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.
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Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.
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I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.
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I've been all over the world on my own because, as a scientist, you travel a great deal if your work is reasonably successful or published. I get invitations to go to all sorts of strange countries where I would mostly be by myself and just meet other people there, instead of having travelling companions.
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You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.
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I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.
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Whether you're religious or not, there is a real need for other people's religious positions to be treated with the upmost respect.
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Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you rather meet the doctor than a machine?
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While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to religious feelings. Some of the genes likely to be involved are those which control levels of different chemicals called neurotransmitters in the brain.
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I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible, glutinous pudding served in containers we called 'coffins.' As a vegetarian, I had a lump of loathsome cheese and some bread.
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I did not study science at school until I was 13, when I was totally turned on by a seemingly dreary old teacher who suddenly, unannounced, manufactured a huge explosion in the middle of a totally boring monologue. From then on, all of his class wanted to make explosions.
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Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will want to modify their children, enhance their intelligence, their strength and their beauty and all the other so-called desirable characteristics.
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You can't be judgmental about babies. They are all have different needs. I was left with an enduring hatred of cheese because it was forced down me when I was young.
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Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.
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However pragmatic you are, it is very demanding being a new parent.
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I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.
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