Without equality, he argued, eugenics would degenerate into yet another mechanism by which the powerful could control the weak.
Intelligence…[is] not marathon rac[e]: there is no fixed criteria for success, no start or finish lines — and running sideways or backwards, might secure victory.
Freaks become norms, and norms become extinct. Monster by monster, evolution advanced
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
The cure of even one solid cancer in adults, Farber knew, would singularly revolutionize oncology. It would provide the most concrete proof that this was a winnable war.
And this was to save rats, right? Or mice? You spent all this money to save mice the problem of developing tumors?
In God we trust. All others [must] have data. – Bernard Fisher
In a spiritual sense, a positive attitude may help you get through chemotherapy and surgery and radiation and what have you. But a positive mental attitude does not cure cancer – any more than a negative mental attitude causes cancer.
A strong intuition is much more powerful than a weal test. Normals teach us rules; outliers teach us laws. For every perfect medical experiment, there is a perfect human bias.
What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes.
Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, ‘You know, that doesn’t look right’.
My memory of my household is of one immersed in books and music. I have a very intimate relationship with Bengali literature, particularly Tagore, and my interest besides reading then was music.