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A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

The God of Worms had evidently left tiny loopholes of chance in the worm's design, but He still wouldn't throw dice.

It was, I suspected, not the first time that a patient had consoled a doctor about the ineffectuality of his discipline.

Cancer is not just a dividing cell. It's a complex disease: It invades, it metastasizes, it evades the immune system.

Cancer, perhaps, is an ultimate perversion of genetics - a genome that becomes pathologically obsessed with replicating itself. The

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

All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.

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

Soot is a mixture of chemicals that would eventually be found to contain several carcinogens.

Cancer changes your life," a patient wrote after her mastectomy. "It alters your habits. ... Everything becomes magnified.

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

Great science emerges out of great contradiction.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The (cancer) cells, technically speaking, are immortals. The woman from whose body they were once taken has been dead for thirty years

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

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

Natures and features last until the grave

And this was to save rats, right? Or mice? You spent all this money to save mice the problem of developing tumors?

It was Disney World fused with Cancerland.

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

Seek simplicity, but distrust it," Alfred North Whitehead, the mathematician and philosopher, once advised his students. Dobzhansky

The approach required more persistence than imagination, but it produced remarkable results.

The dinosaurs who studied dinosaurs would soon become extinct in their own right. Watson

It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy

This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.

If we didn't kill the tumor, we killed the patient. - William Moloney on the early days of chemotherapy

It's easy to make perfect decisions with perfect information. Medicine asks you to make perfect decisions with imperfect information.

is, in truth, a variety of diseases

Could your medicine be a cell, not a pill? Could your medicine be an organ that's created outside the body? Could your medicine be an environment?

Is medicine a science?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient.

Memories sharpen the past; it is reality that decays.

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

Cancer is not one disease but many diseases.

If we, as a species, are the ultimate product of Darwinian selection, then so, too, is this incredible disease that lurks inside us.

A model is a lie that helps you see the truth.

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

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

Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos

Every era casts cancer in its own image.

I had a novice's hunger for history, but also a novice's inability to envision it.

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:

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

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

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

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

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

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.

Its palliation is a daily task, its cure a fervent hope. - William Castle, describing leukemia in 1950

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?

Cancer is a flaw in our growth, but this flaw is deeply entrenched in ourselves.

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'.

Cancer, we now know, is a disease caused by the uncontrolled growth of a single cell.

The discipline of medicine concerns the manipulation of knowledge under uncertainty.

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

History repeats, but science reverberates.

It is the impulse of science to try to understand nature, and the impulse of technology to try to manipulate it.

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

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.

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

Normalcy is the antithesis of evolution.

It is not what you have," as a certain Brazilian samba instructor once told me, "it is what you do with it.

One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.

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

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

How can one capture genes that behave like ghosts," Weinberg wrote, "influencing cells from behind some dark curtain?

Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.

In China, lung cancer is already a leading cause of death attributable to smoking in men.

Science begins with counting. To understand a phenomenon, a scientist must first describe it; to describe it objectively, he must first measure it.

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

Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact. ...

In God we trust," he brusquely told a journalist. "All others [must] have data.

To understand cancer as a whole, he reasoned, you needed to start at the bottom of its complexity, in its basement.