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" It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements. "
Robert Winston
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Animals
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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. "
Robert Winston
Think
People
Society
" I'm a traditional Jew with an orthodox background, and it informs much of my approach to science. Of course I think it's very important that if you have those sorts of backgrounds you don't impose them on other people as a clinician, of course. "
Robert Winston
You
Science
People
" Well I think fundamentally, what I think surprises me is the creationist movement, and the notion that somehow you can't believe in God if you believe in evolution. But I don't think there's anything in the Bible which prevents a recognition that evolution is a highly plausible way that we came to be here. "
Robert Winston
Me
God
Believe
" 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. "
Robert Winston
Believe
Egg
Human
" One of the most important aspects of what makes us who we are is neither straight genes or straight environment but actually what happens to us during development. "
Robert Winston
Important
Us
Development
" 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. "
Robert Winston
Design
Never
Go
" I actually don't mind whether people can choose the sex of the baby - in fact humans have been trying to do it for 3,000 years. But there is a real issue about the safety of the technique. "
Robert Winston
Safety
Baby
Mind
" I used to work for the World Health Organisation in poor countries all over the world - Bangladesh, Korea, the Philippines and India. You learn a whole range of things about how other people are living and try to connect with them to gain an understanding of where they're coming from. "
Robert Winston
World
You
Health
" My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals. "
Robert Winston
Own
Animals
My Own
" Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people. "
Robert Winston
Disability
People
Underestimate
" 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
Time
London
Medical
" However pragmatic you are, it is very demanding being a new parent. "
Robert Winston
Demanding
You
New
" IVF is very commercial. The people doing it are among the best-paid in medicine: they charge a lot per treatment and it's not in their interest to make it more effective. Having people fail means that they come back again. "
Robert Winston
More
Medicine
Back
" Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be. "
Robert Winston
Think
Science
Medicine
" 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. "
Robert Winston
School
Every Day
Day
" In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous. "
Robert Winston
Religion
Man
Science
" I don't think you can impose limits on science because the very nature of homo sapiens is that he - she - is an inquisitive species. You can't control science. You have to control the effects of science. "
Robert Winston
Limits
Think
Nature
" 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. "
Robert Winston
Think
Hate
People
" As parents, can we counter the effect of television violence? One worrying feature in Britain is that so many TV sets are in a child's bedroom; this means that the mediating effect of watching with a parent, the ability to discuss and interpret what has been seen, is lost. "
Robert Winston
Parents
Lost
Child
" There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative. "
Robert Winston
Strong
Family
Mother
" 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. "
Robert Winston
Today
Think
Children
" 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. "
Robert Winston
People
Science
Time
" I like travelling on my own. It means I'm completely free to think about what's around me. "
Robert Winston
Free
Like
Me
" 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. "
Robert Winston
Conflict
Purpose
Great
" 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. "
Robert Winston
Mistakes
Work
Society
" 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. "
Robert Winston
Past
Values
Church
" 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. "
Robert Winston
Clear
Jewish
History
" 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. "
Robert Winston
Work
Travel
People
" 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.' "
Robert Winston
Human
Past
Child
" We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation to science. Both the conduct of religion and the pursuit of technology are capable of leading mankind into evil; but both can prompt great good. "
Robert Winston
Science
Technology
Relationship