I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with appropriate drugs for their cancer.

I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.

I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.

The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.

The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.

You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.

We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.

I like to look for patterns, in science and life. It’s what I do.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Each and every year I feel like I've gotten a little bit better and that's always been my goal, was just to get a little bit better

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.

I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder what I'd look like if I slipped a few notches on the mental-health index.

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?