Robert Winston Quotes

• 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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  Niños, Pensamiento, Mundo

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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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• 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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• 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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• Casi todos los inventos tampoco se reconocen por su lado positivo cuando se hacen. Por ejemplo, los científicos no diseñaron una máquina de CD, sino un láser. Pero con el láser hemos conseguido todo tipo de cosas que ni remotamente habíamos imaginado, y seguimos encontrando cosas que puede hacer el láser.

  Robert Winston

  Cds, Design, Example

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

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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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• 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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• El hombre es una criatura competitiva, y la semilla del conflicto está profundamente arraigada en nuestros genes. Luchábamos entre nosotros en la sabana y sólo sobrevivíamos contra grandes adversidades organizándonos en grupos que tuvieran un objetivo común, lo que nos daba moral y fortaleza.

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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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• Tener un hijo es posiblemente lo más importante que se hace en la vida.

  Robert Winston

  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?

  Robert Winston

  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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• Mi primer voto fue para un comunista en el este de Londres cuando era estudiante de medicina. Pero he votado a conservadores, laboristas y liberales demócratas.

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  East London, Firsts, Students

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• En la prehistoria, el Homo sapiens estaba en grave peligro. Los primeros humanos eran menos ágiles, tenían menos armas naturales y los sentidos menos afinados que todos los depredadores que les amenazaban. Además, sus movimientos se veían obstaculizados por la necesidad de proteger a sus crías, singularmente inmaduras, jugosa comida para cualquier bestia hambrienta.

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  Feet, Immature, Meals

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

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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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