Siddhartha Mukherjee My memory of my household is of one immersed in books and music. I have a very intimate relationship with Bengali literature, particularly Tagore, and my interest besides reading then was music. – Siddhartha Mukherjee Bengali Quotes Books Quotes Household Quotes Immersed Quotes Intimate Quotes Literature Quotes Memory Quotes Music Quotes Reading Quotes Relationship Quotes Tagore Quotes Sidney Farber was a pathologist. He was called a doctor of the dead. He was a pathologist who sort of lived in the basement of the children’s hospital in Boston, and he became very interested in childhood leukemia. And Farber began to inject this drug, aminopterin, into young kids, in order to see if he could get a remission. We know cancer is caused ultimately via a link between the environment and genes. There are genes inside cells that tell cells to grow and the same genes tell cells to stop growing. When you deregulate these genes, you unleash cancer. Now, what disrupts these genes? Mutations.
ComputersIntelligenceTyler Cowen The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at – indeed, great at. – Tyler Cowen
BodhidharmaTeacher Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help. – Bodhidharma
Ehud Barak I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history. – Ehud Barak
Hasan MinhajWedding I had a huge Indian wedding, and I did it for my wife, and I did it for my white friends. – Hasan Minhaj
Bill Nye When one shows up in jeans and a T-shirt, I strongly feel that the audience reacts in a very different way than when you show up in a sport coat and a tie. – Bill Nye
Margaret Cuomo We owe it to ourselves, to our families, and to the future of America to improve the quality of our daily diets, and keep America healthy and lean. – Margaret Cuomo
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