Atoms Quote by Harold E. Varmus

As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.

— Harold E. Varmus

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

Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.

— Harold E. Varmus

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

— Harold E. Varmus

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

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

I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.

— Harold E. Varmus

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.

— Harold E. Varmus

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

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

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