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

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.

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.

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.

Organization takes the fun out of everything.

Any spending should be debated openly on the floor of the House and voted on in open session, with the American people having a chance to watch and listen.

A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge.

I been in the game for 10 years making rap tunes... Ever since honeys was wearing Sassoons.

Must stop. This ink is amazing, it really doesn't smear, even when you cry on it

Finding God in All Things.

If I want my children to learn what bomba and plena is, I will teach them.

And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.

We need to embark on a human revolution. A revolution where our reality is not replaced by drones but augmented by technology to do better.