Quotes by Harold E. Varmus - Page 1

My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.
Harold E. Varmus / Scientist
Porch
Reading
Summer
Ideal
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Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.
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Age
Cancer
Causes
Heredity
Rays
Tobacco
Viruses
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I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.
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Encouraging
Company
More Money
Pharmaceutical
Pharmaceutical Companies
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Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.
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Design
Elegant
Moving
Practice
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Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.
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Theme
Trying
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There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.
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Science
Atoms
Three
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Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled.
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Accuracy
Diagnosis
Cured
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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Active
Discovery
Passive
Process
Absorb
Rewarding
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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
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Envy
Institute
Programmes
Ran
Expressed
Scientific
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In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.
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Cancer
Causes
Evidence
Vaguely
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In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.
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Arise
Cancer
Microscopes
Organs
Way
Appear
General
Cancers
Characterized
Microscope
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I'm used to being surrounded by really smart 22-year-old students who have no problem saying that something I suggested is not a very good idea.
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No Problem
Smart
Good Idea
Suggested
Surrounded
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Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.
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Cancer
Disease
Principles
Understood
Effectively
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As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.
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Devoted
Fulfilling
Journalism
Requirements
Undergraduate
Amherst
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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.
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Jealousy
Engaged
Medical School
Provoked
Real World
Seeming
The Real World
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A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to become scientists as they neared thirty.
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Attempting
Courses
Evening
Extraordinary
Offering
Physicians
Thirty
Feature
Scientists
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The NCI scientific programme leaders meet regularly to ensure that we are not ignoring highly original proposals and that we are not creating an unbalanced grant portfolio.
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Unbalanced
Portfolio
Ensure
Grant
Ignoring
Programme
Proposals
Regularly
Scientific
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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Afternoon
Amazed
Enthusiasm
High School Students
Laboratory
Weekends
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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.
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Fundamentals
Looks
Principles
Pursuit
Retreat
Tolerate
Biological
Fundamental
Scientists
Systems
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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.
Harold E. Varmus / Scientist
Graduation
Depth
Fellowship
Following
Harvard
Scholarship
Tests
Wilson
Amherst
Literary
Graduate
Studies
Test
Woodrow
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I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs.
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December
Eastern
Emigration
Long Island
New York City
Shadow
Shore
World War Ii
War World City
Island
World War
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The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.
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Inspiring
Sports
Athletics
Despite
Enjoyed
Preference
Reading
Team
Attended
Circle
Public
Dominated
Small
Intellectually
Public Schools
Rarely
Schools
Team Sports
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Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.
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Medical
War
Launching
Medical School
Military
Military Service
Public Health
School
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Assignment
Avoid
Fiercely
Fulfill
Graduating
Opposed
Service
Sought
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From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they might provide a relatively simple entry into a problem as complex as cancer.
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Association
Cancer
Entry
Problem
Reading
Simple
Viruses
Animals
Complex
Early
Relatively
Provide
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When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read.
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Genetics
Intellectual
Stimulation
Behavioral
Breakthroughs
Tremendous
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Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And were trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.
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Jobs
Cancer
Differences
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Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.
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Cancer
Differences
Looks
Milk
Predicting
Work Out
Better Job
Work Better New
Similarities
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I had learned of Gertrude Steins bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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Doors
Medicine
Views
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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Academic
Disease
Doors
Future Life
Medicine
Tropical
Life Future Me
Literary
Moods
Opened
Prompted
Specialist
Stein
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I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. Peoples habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.
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Important
Medicine
Smoking
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I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.
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Behavior
Hiv
Medicine
Smoking
Steps
Transmission
Willingness
Avoid
Element
Habits
Premise
Quit
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In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968 and then joined Ira Pastan's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health as a Clinical Associate.
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Academic
Institute
Ira
Laboratory
Medicine
Preparation
Associate
Clinical
Hospital
Joined
Officer
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Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.
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Graduation
Credentials
Despite
Institute
Ira
Laboratory
Research
Training
Agreed
Applied
Contemporaries
National
Perhaps
Scientific
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I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in the surrounding cells that feed and respond to cancers are vulnerabilities that will allow us to make better predictions of which kinds of drugs will work to treat these cancers.
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Appreciation
Cancer
Deeper
Predictions
Work Believe I Believe
Work Believe Better
Feed
Respond
Surrounding
Vulnerabilities
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A cancer is not simply a lung cancer. It doesn't simply have a certain kind of appearance under the microscope or a certain behavior, but it also has a set of changes in the genes or in the molecules that modify gene behavior that allows us to categorize cancers in ways that is very useful in thinking about new ways to control cancer by prevention and treatment.
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Cancer
Thinking
Way
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