Academic Quote by Harold E. Varmus

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many…

— J. G. Ballard

I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many…

— J. G. Ballard

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

— Raymond Queneau

Isolated in the oncology ward, I began to think about my dream to become a writer.

— Suleika Jaouad

By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered…

— Paul Berg

I was drawn to medicine because I'm fond of serving. In college, we go to the orphanage every week, see patients first-hand.

— Sai Pallavi

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death…

— Albert Claude

Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.

— Alain de Botton

Although I liked especially physics and mathematics for which I had considerable talent, I decided to study medicine. This profession had for me a…

— Renato Dulbecco

I always wanted to be a psychiatrist.

— Ester Dean

I think if I had done anything else I would like to have been a doctor. This is the sort of polar opposition to…

— Sylvia Plath