Quotes by : Siddhartha Mukherjee

There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients,....

My memory of my household is of one immersed in books and music. I have a very intimate relationship....

Emblematic of this era was the prolific Viennese surgeon Theodor Billroth. Born in 1821, Billroth studied....

If we define "beauty" as having blue eyes (and only blue eyes), then we will, indeed, find a "gene for....

The cure of even one solid cancer in adults, Farber knew, would singularly revolutionize oncology. It....

McKusick's belief in this paradigm-the focus on disability rather than abnormalcy-was actualized in the....

A strong intuition is much more powerful than a weal test. Normals teach us rules; outliers teach us....

Freaks become norms, and norms become extinct. Monster by monster, evolution advanced

When scientists underestimate complexity, they fall prey to the perils of unintended consequences. The....

Nothing is invented; nothing is extraneous. Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its....