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Robert Winston Biography

Robert Maurice Lipson Winston, Baron Winston FMedSci FRSA FRCP FRCOG FREng (born 15 July 1940) is a British professor, medical doctor, scientist, television presenter and Labour Party politician.

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Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of "experiments" banned long ago.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.

Animal, Compassion, Humility, Pain, Publishing, Work

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.

Baby, Different, Hatred, Left, Needs, Young

I went to school with butterflies of fear every day for years - from primary school onwards - not just worried about being bullied by classmates, but by teachers.

Bullied, Butterfly, Day, School, Teacher, Teachers

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.

Express, Make, Metaphor, Television, Thinking

I like travelling on my own. It means I'm completely free to think about what's around me.

Completely, Free, Like, Mean, My Own, Thinking

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.

Faces, Katisha, Like, Mustache, Time, Worry

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.

Ideally, People, School, Things, Work Out

Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.

Babies, Baby, Children, Parent, Parents, Talk

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.

Connect, Country, Korea, Organisation, People, Whole

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.

Different, Idea, Ideas, Long, Understanding

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.

Ambition, Children, Environment, Families, Thinking

Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.

Except, Medicine, Science, Taught, Think, Thinking

I'm a traditional Jew with an orthodox background, and it informs much of my approach to science. Of course I think it's very important that if you have those sorts of backgrounds you don't impose them on other people as a clinician, of course.

Approach, Important, People, Science, Sorts, Thinking

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

Disability, Pain, People, Underestimate

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.

Birth, Children, Different, Give, Giving, Numbers

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.

Cheese, School, Spam, Vegetarian, War, Years

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.

Britain And America, Cells, Thinking, Time, Useful

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.

Develop, Developing, Intuition, Might, Moral, Religion

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.

Feelings, Gene, Involved, Likely, Personality, Religious

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.

Believe, Father, Husband, Mother, Process, Regret

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