Siddhartha Mukherjee Quotes
Top 89 wise famous quotes and sayings by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjee Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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
Cancer changes your life," a patient wrote after her mastectomy. "It alters your habits. ... Everything becomes magnified.
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.
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.
And this was to save rats, right? Or mice? You spent all this money to save mice the problem of developing tumors?
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
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.
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?
A patient, long before he becomes the subject of medical scrutiny, is, at first, simply a storyteller, a narrator of suffering -
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.
If we, as a species, are the ultimate product of Darwinian selection, then so, too, is this incredible disease that lurks inside us.
What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes.
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.
Technological innovations do not define a science; they merely prove that medicine is scientific - i.e.,
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?
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'.
The very effect of X-rays killing rapidly dividing cells - DNA damage - also created cancer-causing mutations in genes.
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
It is not what you have," as a certain Brazilian samba instructor once told me, "it is what you do with it.
The search for a way to eradicate this scourge ... is left to incidental dabbling and uncoordinated research. - The Washington Post, 1946
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.
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