Author: Harold E. Varmus

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

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

- Harold E. Varmus

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.

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.

- Harold E. Varmus

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

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

- Harold E. Varmus

I'm used to being surrounded by really smart 22-year-old students who have no problem saying that something I suggested is not a very good idea.

I'm used to being surrounded by really smart 22-year-old students who have no problem saying that something I suggested is not a very good idea.

- Harold E. Varmus

When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.

When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.

- Harold E. Varmus

A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to become scientists as they neared thirty.

A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to become scientists as they neared thirty.

- Harold E. Varmus

When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

- Harold E. Varmus

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

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

- Harold E. Varmus

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