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.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

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

In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.

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.

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

Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.