"From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s,……" — 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 might provide a relatively simple entry into a problem as complex as cancer."
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22 Quotes by Harold E. Varmus
Harold E. Varmus has 22 quotes on this site.
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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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A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians…
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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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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
— Aristotle
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Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on…
— Mary Kay Ash
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People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.
— David Attenborough
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There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the…
— David Attenborough
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The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual…
— David Attenborough
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I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how…
— David Attenborough
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I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I…
— David Attenborough
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If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in…
— David Attenborough
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Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware…
— David Attenborough
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see…
— Diane Ackerman
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We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the…
— Diane Ackerman
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