Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.

Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.

My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.

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

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

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.

Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

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

In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.

I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort of jealousy, and I decided to go to medical school after all.

Toxic remnants of war represent a profound challenge for the protection of public health and the restoration of the environment in countries affected by conflict.

When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjoying a scene.

Ladies and gentlemen, you can't please everyone. Take my girlfriend - I think she's the most remarkable woman in the world. . . . That's me . . . But to my wife . . .

To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.

Uh-uh. We've played this game before. I hide. You never seek. I'm a bit slow on the uptake, but I'm beginning to sense a pattern.

Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.

I am one of those people who quite enjoys responsibility.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.

I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just, make money off of everybody.