Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

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

My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.

I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.

All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the study of model systems and the pursuit of fundamental biological principles.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.

In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.

Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.

I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy, and I decided to go to medical school after all.

I am only a dead Sciomancer, but I must warn you of fire and kisses.

Your obsession determines what you pay attention to. Your observations are limited to the focus of your mind.

Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.

Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.

A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.

There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.

The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ.

Edward's only human Bella. He's going to react like any other boy.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.