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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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It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which…
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Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.
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Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.
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The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity,…
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She endured. And survived. Marginally, perhaps, but it is not required of us that we live well.
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If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.
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The problem is that neither the M1 nor the M60 or indeed neither any tank, has sufficient ground pressure to drive a…
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Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives…
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You're not just trying to do something marginally, incrementally better. You're doing something that is a fundamental paradigm shift, that will have…
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Comedy is very important, yes. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally…
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No woman will ever satisfy me. I know that now, and I would never try to deny it. But this is actually…
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Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what…
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