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

If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.

I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.

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

I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recent visits to Delhi, I've started to realize that the city has become intellectually very lively. It makes me want to discover the city over and over again.

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer.