Be careful what you choose: You may get it.
This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.
I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward, my first instinct was to withdraw from what was going on - the complexity, the death. It was a very bleak time.
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.
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'.
I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.
I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.
Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future.
We give people way too much credit. People just get crazy.
Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell you to fall in love with the act. You're really crazy now. '
I have never been interested in making a photograph that describes what the world I live in looks like, but I am interested in what pictures (of the world) look like.