Precision medicine is one way to attack cancer and it's proven to be very effective but, remember that like HIV/AIDS, you're going to need combination therapies.

Hepatitis C was a devastating disease but because fundamental research was done in hepatitis C, it is now curable. It is now absolutely curable with new medications. So this is transformative.

Once you close down your laboratory, you can't just rev it up again if you're able to finally get a grant.

Cancer can no longer be classified according to the organ in which it arises. It has to be characterized in terms of the genetic mutation that exists.

I like to think of making cancer a chronic disease rather than focus just on curing cancer.

The key to HIV/AIDS was to say let's give a patient multiple different therapies at the same time and that makes the virus much less likely to mutate.

The biggest risk factor for cancer is aging.

If you have a pap smear every year, there's no reason to develop cervical cancer.

Now beggars can be choosers with Cosmic Ordering.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.

There will be those who will tell you that you can't make it because of how you look, because of the way you talk. We all have heard that - I almost listened.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

I saw a bee have a heart attack.

You can't give any exciting speech without misremembering things.

I'm kind of pinching myself in the morning. Like, wait, you really did pray to have a body of work that stays diversified and interesting. And I have it!

Every fight can be the last one, that's why for every fight I prepare myself like it's the last fight of my career.