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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

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

Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck. — Roger Zelazny

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

You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect. — Hermann Hesse

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

God is in no hurry, so why should I be?"), Griffith — Siddhartha Mukherjee

It was this very thing, it seemed to him now, which had been his sickness before: that he was not able to love anybody or anything. Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse

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

I will learn from myself, be my own pupil; I will learn from myself the secret of Siddhartha. — Hermann Hesse

For you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force. Vesadeva to Siddartha — Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha considered his circumstances. Thinking did not come easily to him. He didn't really feel like it, but he forced himself. — Hermann Hesse

I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shramanas satisfy themselves with such skills. — Hermann Hesse

Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself. — Hermann Hesse

Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm, impresihable light, inviolable peace. — Hermann Hesse

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions. — Hermann Hesse

He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman. — Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering. — Hermann Hesse

You spent all this money to save mice the problem of developing tumors? Exchanges — Siddhartha Mukherjee

The search for a way to eradicate this scourge ... is left to incidental dabbling and uncoordinated research. - The Washington Post, 1946 — Siddhartha Mukherjee

It was Disney World fused with Cancerland. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Is medicine a science? — Siddhartha Mukherjee

A patient, long before he becomes the subject of medical scrutiny, is, at first, simply a storyteller, a narrator of suffering - — Siddhartha Mukherjee

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Natures and features last until the grave — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering. — Siddhartha 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

Second, proto-oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes typically lie at the hubs of cellular signaling pathways. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Bill by bill, and letter by letter, his scientific imagination was slowly choked by administrative work. — 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

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Memories sharpen the past; it is reality that decays. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

A Pap smear would give a woman a chance to receive preventive care [and] greatly decrease the likelihood of her ever developing cancer. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

All that we are is a result of what we have thought — Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

Her smile was as fresh as a half-opened lotus. Siddhartha bowed and looked into her eyes, saying in a quiet voice, Thank you, princess. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes. — Gautama Buddha

In science, ideology tends to corrupt; absolute ideology, [corrupts] absolutely. - Robert Nisbet — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Prostate cancer represents a full third of all cancer incidence in men - sixfold that of leukemia and lymphoma. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Most of the selected essays share a common thread: They describe how science happens. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Life is a video game, only difference is that you don't always get three chances! — Siddhartha Choudhary

The art of medicine is long, Hippocrates tells us, and life is short; opportunity fleeting; the experiment perilous; judgment flawed. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

An Irish surgeon, Denis Burkitt, discovered an aggressive form of lymphoma - now called Burkitt's lymphoma - — Siddhartha Mukherjee

(The name vincristine comes from vinca, the Latin word for "bind.") — Siddhartha Mukherjee

A major hindrance to cancer effort has been a chronic, severe shortage of funds - a situation that is not generally recognized. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Leukemia was a malignant proliferation of white cells in the blood. It was cancer in a molten, liquid form. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

And the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still. — Hermann Hesse

Great science emerges out of great contradiction. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Being born a princess is all right, but behaving like one can be dangerous. — Siddhartha Choudhary

If something is good, more is not necessarily better. Not always. — 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

What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Our encounter with cancer has rounded us off; it has smoothed and polished us like river rocks. — 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

Freaks become norms, and norms become extinct. Monster by monster, evolution advanced — Siddhartha Mukherjee

BRCA-1, a gene that strongly predisposes humans to breast and ovarian cancer. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Everything changes, nothing remains without change. — Gautama Buddha

Technological innovations do not define a science; they merely prove that medicine is scientific - i.e., — Siddhartha Mukherjee

In God we trust. All others [must] have data. - Bernard Fisher — Siddhartha 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

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

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

Normal cells are identically normal; malignant cells become unhappily malignant in unique ways. — Siddhartha 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

The very effect of X-rays killing rapidly dividing cells - DNA damage - also created cancer-causing mutations in genes. — Siddhartha 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

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient? — Hermann Hesse

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

I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India. — 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

The revolution in cancer research can be summed up in a single sentence: cancer is, in essence, a genetic disease. - Bert Vogelstein — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Kamala did not try to find him. She was not surprised when she learned that Siddhartha had disappeared. — Hermann Hesse

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