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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. "
Robert Winston
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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. "
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
" Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man. "
Robert Winston
Man
Modern
Aggression
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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 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
" 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
" About 3 million IVF babies have been born since Louise Brown's birth in 1978. Bizarrely, when this life-giving treatment was first considered, it was massively controversial. A storm of vitriolic protest came from many religious leaders, journalists, politicians, regrettably even other scientists and doctors. "
Robert Winston
Birth
Born
Storm
" 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. "
Robert Winston
Disappointment
Thought
Mirror
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Some of the hotels I've been put up in for work in Scotland have been shockingly bad. They're the type of hotel where the bedroom is like a cell and the Internet doesn't work. I feel quite aggrieved at that because you should at least be treated reasonably well and have basic comfort. "
Robert Winston
Internet
Hotel
Comfort
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Winston
Born
Time
Face
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Winston
Seeing
Enjoy
Myself
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Winston
Work
Good
Best
" 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
" It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress. "
Robert Winston
Legislation
Pace
Progress
" 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. "
Robert Winston
Think
Parenting
Good
" 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
" 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
" It is possible that strong levels of belief in God, gods, spirits or the supernatural might have given our ancestors considerable comforts and advantages. "
Robert Winston
Belief
Ancestors
Strong
" I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked. "
Robert Winston
Spiral
Brutal
Detective
" 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