I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character that has lived for 4,000 years, and I wanted to know what was its birth, what is its mind, its personality, its psyche?

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy

Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

In Paris, friend of Bequerel’s, a young physicist-chemist couple named Pierre and Marie Curie, began to scour the natural world for even more powerful chemical sources of X-rays. Pierre and Marie (then Maria Sklodowska, a penniless Polish immigrant living in a garret in Paris) had met at the Sorbonne and been drawn to each other because of a common interest in magnetism.