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Harold E. Varmus has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.
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I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a…
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The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends…
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning…
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As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.
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Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps…
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A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to…
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From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand…
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I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy,…
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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
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Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled…
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The NCI scientific programme leaders meet regularly to ensure that we are not ignoring highly original proposals and that we are not…
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We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which…
— Norman Mailer
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The first observation of cancer cells in the smear of the uterine cervix gave me one of the greatest thrills I ever…
— Unknown Author
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One reason milk consumption may lead to cancer risk is insulin-like growth factor, IGF-1 (not to be confused with bovine growth hormone,…
— Unknown Author
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Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening…
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body fight off disease, cancer cells as well as viral, bacterial and other infections.…
— Patch Adams
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I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope…
— Gordon Gee
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I'd like to end the book a lot of ways. Except I don't have any answers. Use your common sense. Be nice.…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The only things that are immortal in this world are government programs and cancer cells in petri dishes.
— Jim Babka
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You've got to get away from the idea cancer is a disease to be cured. It's not a disease really. The cancer…
— Paul Davies
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Cancer cells come pre-programmed to execute a well-defined cascade of changes, seemingly designed to facilitate both their enhanced survival and their dissemination…
— Paul Davies
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
— Harold Pinter
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