My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.

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.

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.

There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.

I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.

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.

Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.