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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
#Know
#Laugh
#People
#Walk
#Why
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
#Health
#Poor
#Understanding
#Work
#World
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
#Bullying
#Childhood
#Experience
#Serious
Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.
- Robert Winston
#Aggression
#Deep
#Instinct
#Man
#Modern
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
#Age
#Death
#Man
#Process
#Women
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
#Ancestors
#Belief
#God
#Gods
#Possible
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
#History
#People
#School
#Science
#Time
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
#Medical
#My Time
#Student
#Time
#Vote
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
#Important
#Look
#Matter
#Science
#Time
You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.
- Robert Winston
#Animal
#Animals
#Genes
#Human
#Now
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
#Ancestors
#Clear
#History
#Jewish
#Norm
In prehistoric times, Homo sapiens was deeply endangered. Early humans were less fleet of foot, with fewer natural weapons and less well-honed senses than all the predators that threatened them. Moreover, they were hampered in their movements by the need to protect their uniquely immature young - juicy meals for any hungry beast.
- Robert Winston
#Beast
#Early
#Hungry
#Need
#Young
I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible, glutinous pudding served in containers we called 'coffins.' As a vegetarian, I had a lump of loathsome cheese and some bread.
- Robert Winston
#Eating
#Remember
#School
#War
#World
I think scientific arrogance really does give a great degree of distrust. I think people begin to think that scientists like to believe that they can run the universe.
- Robert Winston
#Arrogance
#Believe
#Great
#Universe
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
#Biology
#Children
#Important
#Research
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
#Politicians
#Protest
#Storm
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
#Finding
#Go
#Never
#Positive
Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?
- Robert Winston
#Better
#Childhood
#Children
#Dead
#Time
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
#Better
#Birth
#Children
#Time
#Way
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
#Great
#Man
#Purpose
#Seeds
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
#America
#Biology
#Long Time
#Long
#Time
I like travelling on my own. It means I'm completely free to think about what's around me.
- Robert Winston
#About
#Free
#Me
#My Own
#Own
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
#God
#Good
#Great
#Relationship
#Religion
#Science
#Technology
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
#Children
#Good
#Parenting
#Way
#World
By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.
- Robert Winston
#Learning
#Potential
#Power
#True
#Work
I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.
- Robert Winston
#Age
#Important
#Science
#Thinking
#Young
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
#Boring
#Old
#School
#Science
#Teacher
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.
- Robert Winston
#Believe
#Good
#Love
#Moving On
#Process
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