"A major feature of life at the NIH……" — Harold E. Varmus
"A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to become scientists as they neared thirty."
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Harold E. Varmus
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22 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.
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I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long…
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The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of…
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship…
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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…
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From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals…
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I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort…
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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the…
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Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more…
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The NCI scientific programme leaders meet regularly to ensure that we are not ignoring highly original proposals and that we…
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All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the…
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