"As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was……" — Harold E. Varmus
"As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements."
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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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Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of…
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A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians…
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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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More Amherst Quotes
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Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
— Joseph Stiglitz
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I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor…
— Joseph Stiglitz
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I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.
— Stephen Cole Kleene
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I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana…
— Paul Engle
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Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.
— Joseph Stiglitz
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I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more…
— Uma Thurman
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I didn’t tell him. He found out. Basically, he caught me coming in after the last time you and I…
— Claudia Gray
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It took years after I’d graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than…
— David Foster Wallace
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship…
— Harold E. Varmus
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My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning…
— Joseph Stiglitz
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I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.
— Stephen Cole Kleene
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