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Harold E Varmus Quotes
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My ideal summer day was reading on the porch (Harold E Varmus Quotes)
There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene (Harold E Varmus Quotes)
I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered (Harold E Varmus Quotes)
In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise (Harold E Varmus Quotes)
Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And were trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs (Harold E Varmus Quotes)
I had learned of Gertrude Steins bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist (Harold E Varmus Quotes)
Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service (Harold E Varmus Quotes)
Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials. (Harold E Varmus Quotes)
I’m used to being surrounded by really smart 22-year-old students who have no problem saying that something I suggested is not a very good idea. (Harold E Varmus Quotes)
Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms. (Harold E Varmus Quotes)
There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene. (Harold E Varmus Quotes)
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. (Harold E Varmus Quotes)
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. (Harold E Varmus Quotes)
I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs. (Harold E Varmus Quotes)
Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice (Harold E Varmus Quotes)