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

My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.

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

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.

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.

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.

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.