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

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

My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.

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.

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.

Determine when you are most effective and energized, then plan your tasks within that time.

Christians don’t have the moral right to be indifferent

If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.

No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power.

The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about; the one that's in your head first thing in the morning.

Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.

You can indeed change the world. Every single good thing you do can change the world.

The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.

God, if you think, God you are. Dust if you think, dust you are. As you think, so you become. Think God, be God.