I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the study of… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
A cancer is not simply a lung cancer. It doesn't simply have a certain kind of appearance under the microscope or a certain behavior,… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. Peoples habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
