"Some growths can be detected early, making for……" — Harold E. Varmus
"Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled."
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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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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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More Accuracy Quotes
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All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
— Richard Avedon
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the…
— Charles Babbage
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Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with…
— Martha Beck
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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the…
— Saul Bellow
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
— Samuel Butler
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There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with…
— John Dewey
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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
— Wyatt Earp
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The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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The advent of the rubber ball was instrumental in creating an entirely different method of striking the object. The solid…
— Harry Vardon
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Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children…
— Robin Sharma
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Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance…
— Charles Babbage
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