HAROLD E. VARMUS 1939—NOBEL PRIZE SCIENCE–CANCER RESEARCHER
TOBACCO, UV RAYS, VIRUSES, HEREDITY AND AGE ARE THE MAIN CAUSES OF CANCER.
SCIENCE can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design & moving in practice.
EVERY CANCER LOOKS DIFFERENT. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we’re trying to milk those differences & similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out & making new drugs.
I KEEP ENCOURAGING THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES TO PUT MORE MONEY INTO R&D.
THERE ARE THREE GREAT THEMES IN SCIENCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: the atom, the computer & the gene.
MY IDEAL SUMMER DAY WAS READING ON THE PORCH.
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.
I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. Peoples habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV are all behavioral questions.
STEVEN SPIELBERG 1946–“RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK”. ‘1941″.
I DON’T dream at night I dream at day, I dream all day; I’m dreaming for a living.
ALL OF US every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all our lives.
FAILURE IS INEVITABLE. SUCCESS IS ELUSIVE.
ALL GOOD IDEAS START OUT AS BAD IDEAS THAT’S WHY IT TAKES SO LONG.
OUR ONE GOAL is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship & understanding. through the visual art of celebration of life.
FROM A VERY YOUNG AGE my parents taught me the most important lesson of my whole life: They taught me how to listen. They taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. when you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge — and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
THE WORK THAT I’M PROUDEST OF IS THE WORK THAT I’M MOST AFRAID OF.
EVERY TIME I GO TO A MOVIE, IT’S MAGIC, NO MATTER WHAT THE MOVIE’S ABOUT.