Robert Winston Quotes - Page 2

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• People think I appear on television to promote my image. That's not fair. I hate filming. I turned down 'Strictly Come Dancing.' But television is a wonderful opportunity to promote scientific ideas. 'Super Doctors' is a very thoughtful piece.

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  Hate, Thoughtful, Opportunity

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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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• Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether you want to enhance a human, and the next generation is going to have to deal with that issue. Should we be trying to enhance humans rather than trying to educate them and so on?

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  Memories, Simple, Thinking

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• Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the Guardian carefully from cover to cover, a normal woman will have lost on average two eggs - while, typically, a normal man will have made 70,000 new sperm.

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  Running, Children, Reading

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

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• Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of "experiments" banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation. The work we do is performed with compassion, care, humanity and humility. I have never seen an animal suffer pain.

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  Pain, Humility, Animal

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

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• The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our society. Ever since Sigmund Freud, many people have associated religiosity with neurosis and mental illness.

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  Believe, People, Neurosis

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

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• When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a degree of introspection. I see some element of disappointment; I see a sense of humour, but also something that is faintly ridiculous; and I see somebody who is frightened of being found out and thought lightweight.

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  Disappointment, Mirrors, Self

  "What I See in the Mirror: Robert Winston". www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.'

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  Children, Past, Thinking

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

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• I went to school with butterflies of fear every day for years - from primary school onwards - not just worried about being bullied by classmates, but by teachers.

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  Teacher, School, Butterfly

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• I don't think we will find a cure for all cancers in the next 50 years let alone 20. I think it's foolishness to say that.

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  Cancer, Thinking, Years

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• I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deeply in love with my father, and he died when I was nine. She remarried, and her second husband died, too. I saw the grieving process she went through. My mother had this way of moving on. It was a fine trait.

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  Mother, Regret, Husband

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• The trouble with climate change is it's an extraordinarily diverse and complex issue, but for example if the BBC would let me make some of the programmes I'd like to make on climate change, I bet you there would be a change of emphasis.

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  Issues, Climate, Example

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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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  Baby, Hatred, Different

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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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  Philosophy, Past, Church

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

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• Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it.

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  Ideas, Long, Understanding

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• When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university.

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  Children, Ambition, Thinking

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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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  Religious, Personality, Feelings

  "Why do we believe in God?" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2005.

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• Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for... less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we've certainly increased the risk of asthma.

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  Children, Medicine, Risk

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

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• It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't developed in an instant, that it became gradually the accepted norm. But undoubtedly, Jewish ancestors were polytheists.

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  Biblical, Accepted, Jewish History

  "Epiphanies: Lord Robert Winston". "The Spirit of Things" with Rachael Kohn, www.abc.net.au. June 4, 2006.

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• I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they really are, and I think one of the issues about our society is that we make judgments about people on the basis of very flimsy evidence.

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  Thinking, Issues, People

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

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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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  Mother, Strong, Doctors

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• Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

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  Pain, People, Underestimate

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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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  Children, Believe, Eggs

  "Epiphanies: Lord Robert Winston". "The Spirit of Things" with Rachael Kohn, www.abc.net.au. June 4, 2006.

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• My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.

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  Father, Thinking, Doe

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• I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.

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  Watches, Detectives, Spirals

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