Quotes by Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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History repeats, but science reverberates. — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Emblematic of this era was the prolific Viennese surgeon Theodor Billroth. Born in 1821, Billroth studied music and surg — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
A furious researcher stumbled out of one of the lab buildings and shouted, 'I'm a scientist working on the AIDS cure. Wh — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Only one person was conspicuously missing from the (American Society of Clinical Oncology, ASCO) party - Dennis Slamon. — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Nothing is invented; nothing is extraneous. Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathol — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Labs, too, can become machines. In science, it is more often a pejorative description than a complimentary one: an effic — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
It was Disney World fused with Cancerland. — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
When a disease insinuates itself so potently into the imagination of an era, it is often because it impinges on an anxie — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
And this was to save rats, right? Or mice? You spent all this money to save mice the problem of developing tumors? — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
In God we trust. All others [must] have data. - Bernard Fisher — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
In an essay titled A View From the Front Line, Jencks described her experience with cancer as like being woken up midfli — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer