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A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar.
— Bharati Mukherjee
The God of Worms had evidently left tiny loopholes of chance in the worm's design, but He still wouldn't throw dice.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
It was, I suspected, not the first time that a patient had consoled a doctor about the ineffectuality of his discipline.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Cancer is not just a dividing cell. It's a complex disease: It invades, it metastasizes, it evades the immune system.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Cancer, perhaps, is an ultimate perversion of genetics - a genome that becomes pathologically obsessed with replicating itself. The
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?
— Bharati Mukherjee
Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
God is in no hurry, so why should I be?"), Griffith
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Soot is a mixture of chemicals that would eventually be found to contain several carcinogens.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Cancer changes your life," a patient wrote after her mastectomy. "It alters your habits. ... Everything becomes magnified.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind.
— Pranab Mukherjee
Life, like that water droplet, is everlasting and imperishable. There is only a transition, never an end !
— Rajib Mukherjee
The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.
— Bharati Mukherjee
A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.
— Bharati Mukherjee
The world is divided between those who stay and those who leave.
— Bharati Mukherjee
I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
There will be no equity without solidarity. There will be no justice without a social movement.
— Joia Mukherjee
Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow's bafflement or, worse, ridicule.
— Neel Mukherjee
History repeats, but science reverberates.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
It is the impulse of science to try to understand nature, and the impulse of technology to try to manipulate it.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Don't behave in a funny manner. We must have Calcutta in India.
— Pranab Mukherjee
It's making life important, making a single life important, rather than having a prescription for the global ills which afflict us.
— Bharati Mukherjee
Second, proto-oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes typically lie at the hubs of cellular signaling pathways.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Love on the decline is hard to tell from love on the rise." [From 'The Lady from Lucknow']
— Bharati Mukherjee
I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later became 'A Life Apart.'
— Neel Mukherjee
If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Over a man's life, his semen grew into a mobile library of every part of the body - a condensed distillate of the self. This
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
I personally believe that the office of the President of India is not to be sought. It is to be offered.
— Pranab Mukherjee
I am comfortable at the height where destiny has put me.
— Pranab Mukherjee
Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
The very effect of X-rays killing rapidly dividing cells - DNA damage - also created cancer-causing mutations in genes.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Leukemia was a malignant proliferation of white cells in the blood. It was cancer in a molten, liquid form.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel very American. I belong.
— Bharati Mukherjee
Great science emerges out of great contradiction.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.
— Bharati Mukherjee
Her veins and arteries ran with a bitter fluid, not blood, Adinath exclaimed in fury one day.
— Neel Mukherjee
Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Work defines our lives and our place in the world.
— Neel Mukherjee
I couldn't make any sense of this logic, that the better off got more and those had little got less. The world ran on this law and only on this.
— Neel Mukherjee
Whoever said that time blunts all pain did not quite understand that bluntness can wound as grievously as sharp points and edges;
— Neel Mukherjee
I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'
— Bharati Mukherjee
The search for a way to eradicate this scourge ... is left to incidental dabbling and uncoordinated research. - The Washington Post, 1946
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Bill by bill, and letter by letter, his scientific imagination was slowly choked by administrative work.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.
— Pranab Mukherjee
The (cancer) cells, technically speaking, are immortals. The woman from whose body they were once taken has been dead for thirty years
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Being a Bengali, one is surprised when all the endless spume and froth of talk suddenly reveals itself to be the front of a gigantic wave of action.
— Neel Mukherjee
Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
You spent all this money to save mice the problem of developing tumors? Exchanges
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?
— Bharati Mukherjee
A major hindrance to cancer effort has been a chronic, severe shortage of funds - a situation that is not generally recognized.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Natures and features last until the grave
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
And this was to save rats, right? Or mice? You spent all this money to save mice the problem of developing tumors?
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
In God we trust. All others [must] have data. - Bernard Fisher
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Every era casts cancer in its own image.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
I had a novice's hunger for history, but also a novice's inability to envision it.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
This book is the story of the birth, growth, and future of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the history of science:
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
If something is good, more is not necessarily better. Not always.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
When a book is going well, it tells you where to go.
— Neel Mukherjee
BRCA-1, a gene that strongly predisposes humans to breast and ovarian cancer.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Technological innovations do not define a science; they merely prove that medicine is scientific - i.e.,
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.
— Bharati Mukherjee
I don't know everything; is the first statement of wanting to know
— Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Our encounter with cancer has rounded us off; it has smoothed and polished us like river rocks.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
It could be said of him that while others chased the mirage of happiness, he was happy with being content.
— Neel Mukherjee
Not for the first time in his life he felt himself fall into the gap between felings and their articulation in language.
— Neel Mukherjee
I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality.
— Bharati Mukherjee
Its palliation is a daily task, its cure a fervent hope. - William Castle, describing leukemia in 1950
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Is there something I can do to kill the cancer germ? Can the rooms be fumigated ... ? Should I give up my lease and move out?
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Cancer is a flaw in our growth, but this flaw is deeply entrenched in ourselves.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
The incident, played out for, it seemed, a few infinitely elastic seconds, caused a certain calculation to go through the boy's head.
— Neel Mukherjee
Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Cancer, we now know, is a disease caused by the uncontrolled growth of a single cell.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
The revolution in cancer research can be summed up in a single sentence: cancer is, in essence, a genetic disease. - Bert Vogelstein
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.'
— Bharati Mukherjee
Normalcy is the antithesis of evolution.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
It is not what you have," as a certain Brazilian samba instructor once told me, "it is what you do with it.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
The discipline of medicine concerns the manipulation of knowledge under uncertainty.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Normal cells are identically normal; malignant cells become unhappily malignant in unique ways.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
How can one capture genes that behave like ghosts," Weinberg wrote, "influencing cells from behind some dark curtain?
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
In China, lung cancer is already a leading cause of death attributable to smoking in men.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Science begins with counting. To understand a phenomenon, a scientist must first describe it; to describe it objectively, he must first measure it.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end in 1947.
— Pranab Mukherjee
I was born a Brahmin, but I'm not a Brahmin
— Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact. ...
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
In God we trust," he brusquely told a journalist. "All others [must] have data.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
To understand cancer as a whole, he reasoned, you needed to start at the bottom of its complexity, in its basement.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Freaks become norms, and norms become extinct. Monster by monster, evolution advanced
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Cancer is not one disease but many diseases.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
If we, as a species, are the ultimate product of Darwinian selection, then so, too, is this incredible disease that lurks inside us.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
A model is a lie that helps you see the truth.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee