Quotes by : Harold E. Varmus

The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I....

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

Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching....

Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest....

Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the....

I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort....

In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian....