"Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are……" — Harold E. Varmus

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

— Harold E. Varmus

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22 Quotes by Harold E. Varmus

Harold E. Varmus has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.
I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long…
The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of…
Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship…
As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.
Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of…
A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians…
From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals…
I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort…
When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the…
Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more…
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 Age Quotes

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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