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.

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.

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

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.

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