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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Much as I like and admire Richard Dawkins, I do think that to call a book ‘The God Delusion’ is very worrying because the title implies that if you don’t believe in what I believe then you are ‘deluded.’ That, I think, is a dangerous concept and one that is unlikely to win hearts and minds. Robert Winston Read Quote
My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals. Robert Winston Read Quote
Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of ‘experiments’ banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation. The work we do is performed with compassion, care, humanity and humility. I have never seen an animal suffer pain. Robert Winston Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Far too many scientists, including my good friend Richard Dawkins, present science as the truth and present it as factually correct. And actually, of course, that clearly isn’t true. Robert Winston Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
