The 42+ Siddhartha Mukherjee Quotes

There's A Phrase In Shakespeare: He Refers To It As The 'hidden Imposthume', And This Idea Of A Hidden Swelling Is Seminal To Cancer. But Even In More Contemporary Writing It's Called 'the Big C'.

A Breast Cancer Might Turn Out To Have A Close Resemblance To A Gastric Cancer. And This Kind Of Reorganization Of Cancer In Terms Of Its Internal Genetic Anatomy Has Really Changed The Way We Treat And Approach Cancer In General.

Postwar U.s. Was The World's Leader In Science And Technology. The Investment In Science Research Was Staggering.

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.

Most Days, I Go Home And I Feel Rejuvenated. I Feel Ebullient.

I Believe The Biggest Breakthroughs On Cancer Could Come From Brilliant Researchers Based In India.

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'.

It Was Disney World Fused With Cancerland.

Sandeep Jauhar’s Doctored Is A Passionate And Necessary Book That Asks Difficult Questions About The Future Of Medicine. The Narrative Is Gripping, And The Writing Is Marvelous. But It Was The Gravity Of The Problem—so Movingly Told—that Grabbed And Kept My Attention Throughout This Remarkable Work.

I Am A Scientist And I Am A Physician. So I Write Papers.

I Wanted To Explore Cancer Not Just Biologically, But Metaphorically. The Idea That Tuberculosis In The 19th Century Possessed The Same Kind Of Frightening And Decaying Quality Was Very Interesting To Me, And It Seemed That One Could Explore The Idea That Every Age Defined Its Own Illness.

In The Laboratory, We Call This The Six-degrees-of-separation-from-cancer Rule: You Can Ask Any Biological Question, No Matter How Seemingly Distant-what Makes The Heart Fail, Or Why Worms Age, Or Even How Birds Learn Songs-and You Will End Up, In Fewer Than Six Genetic Steps, Connecting With A Proto-oncogene Or Tumor Suppressor.