Robert Winston Quotes

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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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  Children, Thinking, World

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• By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.

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  Mind, Discovering, True Potential

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To build and strengthen new connections, the brain needs the challenge of fresh and unusual stimuli. .... There's a lot of evidence to suggest that repetition is bad for brain health, and novelty is good.

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  Challenges, Brain, Novelty

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• Scientists need to be prepared to engage, and the best people to engage with are students, ideally from primary school because there's no question that their capacity to work out complex things is extremely good.

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  School, People, Work Out

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• It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

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  Progress, Important, Pace

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• We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence the genome's function - are much more important than we realised.

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  Understanding, Important, Influence

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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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  Mistake, Humble, Thinking

  "Is there any place for religious faith in science?". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2011.

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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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  Children, Technology, People

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• Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to design a CD machine: they designed a laser. But we got all sorts of things from a laser which we never remotely imagined, and we're still finding things for a laser to do.

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  Cds, Design, Example

  "My bright idea: Robert Winston". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2010.

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• There needs to be clearer communication for the public avout how valuable it [animal testing] is

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  Communication, Animal, Needs

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• Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.

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  Baby, Children, Parent

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• We are more dependent on science and engineering than at any other time in history. However, there is plenty of evidence that far too many people are scientifically illiterate, often having been put off science at school.

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  School, Engineering, People

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• Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude.

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  Men, Odds, Common Purpose

  "Philip Roth was wrong" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2005.

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• I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.

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  Thinking, Television, Metaphor

  "What I see in the mirror: Robert Winston" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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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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  Animal, Genes, Concerned

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• We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society and an increasing influence on all the children followed in 'Child of Our Time.'

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  Children, Television, Influence

  "Seeing is believing" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2004.

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• We live longer and healthier lives than ever before. Animal research has improved the treatment of infections, helped with immunisation, improved cancer treatment and had a big impact on managing heart disease, brain disorders, arthritis and transplantation.

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  Cancer, Heart, Animal

  "The shame of our silence" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2006.

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• Having a child is arguably the most important thing you do in life.

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  Children, Important, Important Things

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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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  Mean, Cutting, Doctors

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• Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees.

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  Bullying, Children, Cities

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• Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

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  Intuition, Might, Moral

  "The Story of God". Book by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. 2005.

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• I was born with my moustache and, no, I've never been tempted to shave it off. I don't spend a lot of time worrying about my face and, like Gilbert and Sullivan's Katisha, my best feature is my left shoulder-blade.

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  Worry, Mustache, Faces

  "What I see in the mirror: Robert Winston" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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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.

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  East London, Firsts, Students

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• In prehistoric times, Homo sapiens was deeply endangered. Early humans were less fleet of foot, with fewer natural weapons and less well-honed senses than all the predators that threatened them. Moreover, they were hampered in their movements by the need to protect their uniquely immature young - juicy meals for any hungry beast.

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  Feet, Immature, Meals

  "Philip Roth was wrong" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2005.

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• A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.

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  Eggs, Ovaries, Teens

  "Relax, couch potatoes - your sperm is safe" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2013.

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