Fundamental Biological Quotes by Harold E. Varmus

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• There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.
• I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a…
• The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends…
• Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning…
• As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.
• Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps…
• A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to…
• From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand…
• I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy,…
• When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
• Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled…
• 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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