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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? "
Robert Winston
Robots
Down
Doctor
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" Both in Britain and America, huge publicity has been given to stem cells, particularly embryonic stem cells, and the potential they offer. Of course, the study of stem cells is one of the most exciting areas in biology, but I think it is unlikely that embryonic stem cells are likely to be useful in healthcare for a long time. "
Robert Winston
Time
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" 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
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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
" 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? "
Robert Winston
Thinking
Intelligence
Memory
" 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. "
Robert Winston
Problem
Bullying
Children
" 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
" I like travelling on my own. It means I'm completely free to think about what's around me. "
Robert Winston
Free
Like
Me
" No matter what I've published - and you can look it up, I've published quite a lot in science, quite a few books too - none of it's very important. All will be forgotten and in a few years time will be a few comments in eight-point type in footnotes at the bottom of the page somewhere. "
Robert Winston
Time
Look
Important
" 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. "
Robert Winston
Man
Death
Age
" 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
Got
Colleagues
Animals
" I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity. "
Robert Winston
Evidence
Get
Human
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Winston
Personality
Brain
Religion
" 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. "
Robert Winston
Understanding
Feelings
Long
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Winston
Class
Teacher
Science
" Scientists tend to build a reputation on refuting the theories of those who have gone before. Yet, whatever we hypothesize, observe, measure or record about the natural world, it leaves more unanswered questions. "
Robert Winston
Questions
Measure
Reputation
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Winston
Understanding
Important
Influence
" 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
" Following 25 children for the TV series 'Child of Our Time' has been extraordinary. The BBC's original plan was to commemorate the new millennium. What better way than to film a number of expectant mums from across the U.K.? Coming from widely different backgrounds, all were due to give birth on January 1, 2000. "
Robert Winston
Way
Child
Children
" However you define God, and whether you believe in God or not, the world we live in has been shaped by the universal human conviction that there is more to life than life itself; that there is a 'god' shaped hole at the centre of our universe. "
Robert Winston
Life
Live
You
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Winston
Useful
Solid
Religion
" 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 don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need. "
Robert Winston
Thinking
Know
Important
" Neuroscience is now a very important research area in biology. We are now understanding a lot more about brains in babies, as well as children and adults. "
Robert Winston
Understanding
Research
Children
" It's extraordinary to think that if you walked into a room and said you had never heard of Hamlet, you would be regarded as a Philistine. But you could walk into the same room and say, 'I don't know what a proton is,' and people would just laugh and say, 'Why should you know?' "
Robert Winston
Think
People
Laugh