Dhruba Mukherjee Quotes

Natures and features last until the grave ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

God is in no hurry, so why should I be?"), Griffith ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

is, in truth, a variety of diseases ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

BRCA-1, a gene that strongly predisposes humans to breast and ovarian cancer. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Normalcy is the antithesis of evolution. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Most of the selected essays share a common thread: They describe how science happens. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

You spent all this money to save mice the problem of developing tumors? Exchanges ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

The approach required more persistence than imagination, but it produced remarkable results. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Soot is a mixture of chemicals that would eventually be found to contain several carcinogens. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Second, proto-oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes typically lie at the hubs of cellular signaling pathways. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Technological innovations do not define a science; they merely prove that medicine is scientific - i.e., ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Her veins and arteries ran with a bitter fluid, not blood, Adinath exclaimed in fury one day. ~ Neel Mukherjee

Seek simplicity, but distrust it," Alfred North Whitehead, the mathematician and philosopher, once advised his students. Dobzhansky ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

How can one capture genes that behave like ghosts," Weinberg wrote, "influencing cells from behind some dark curtain? ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Cancer, perhaps, is an ultimate perversion of genetics - a genome that becomes pathologically obsessed with replicating itself. The ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Is medicine a science? ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

The very effect of X-rays killing rapidly dividing cells - DNA damage - also created cancer-causing mutations in genes. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

A rainbow looks good because the colours demonstrate restrain. Otherwise it would be an ugly blob. ~ Arindam Mukherjee

In science, ideology tends to corrupt; absolute ideology, [corrupts] absolutely. - Robert Nisbet ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Don't behave in a funny manner. We must have Calcutta in India. ~ Pranab Mukherjee

The dinosaurs who studied dinosaurs would soon become extinct in their own right. Watson ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

A model is a lie that helps you see the truth. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

(The name vincristine comes from vinca, the Latin word for "bind.") ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

It was Disney World fused with Cancerland. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Cancer, we now know, is a disease caused by the uncontrolled growth of a single cell. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

I don't know everything; is the first statement of wanting to know ~ Rudrangshu Mukherjee

In China, lung cancer is already a leading cause of death attributable to smoking in men. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

It was enough that I knew my soul sang, I didn't have to break into minstrelsy. ~ Neel Mukherjee

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger. ~ Pranab Mukherjee

Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact. ... ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty. ~ Bharati Mukherjee

Humor's the hardest thing to translate. ~ Bharati Mukherjee

If we, as a species, are the ultimate product of Darwinian selection, then so, too, is this incredible disease that lurks inside us. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

The (cancer) cells, technically speaking, are immortals. The woman from whose body they were once taken has been dead for thirty years ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Peace comes to those who let others live in peace. ~ Indira Mukherjee

Nécessité absolue trouver origine de cet emmerdement [It is absolutely necessary to find the origin of this pain in the ass]. - Jacques Monod ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

A major hindrance to cancer effort has been a chronic, severe shortage of funds - a situation that is not generally recognized. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Our encounter with cancer has rounded us off; it has smoothed and polished us like river rocks. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Some sinister secret lat buried in the heart of the graveyard ! ~ Rajib Mukherjee

One generation builds, the next generation consumes it to nothing; that is the abiding truth of life. ~ Neel Mukherjee

Its palliation is a daily task, its cure a fervent hope. - William Castle, describing leukemia in 1950 ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

A Pap smear would give a woman a chance to receive preventive care [and] greatly decrease the likelihood of her ever developing cancer. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

History repeats, but science reverberates. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

It was, I suspected, not the first time that a patient had consoled a doctor about the ineffectuality of his discipline. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

The search for a way to eradicate this scourge ... is left to incidental dabbling and uncoordinated research. - The Washington Post, 1946 ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

To understand cancer as a whole, he reasoned, you needed to start at the bottom of its complexity, in its basement. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

The discipline of medicine concerns the manipulation of knowledge under uncertainty. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Whoever said that time blunts all pain did not quite understand that bluntness can wound as grievously as sharp points and edges; ~ Neel Mukherjee

Not for the first time in his life he felt himself fall into the gap between felings and their articulation in language. ~ Neel Mukherjee

Indeed, cancer's emergence in the world is the product of a double negative: it becomes common only when all other killers themselves have been killed. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

The incident, played out for, it seemed, a few infinitely elastic seconds, caused a certain calculation to go through the boy's head. ~ Neel Mukherjee

The God of Worms had evidently left tiny loopholes of chance in the worm's design, but He still wouldn't throw dice. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

If we didn't kill the tumor, we killed the patient. - William Moloney on the early days of chemotherapy ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Unidentified flying objects, abominable snowmen, the Loch Ness monster and human cancer viruses. - Medical World News, 1974, on four "mysteries" widely reported and publicized but never seen ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

The divorced Indian lady combines every fantasy about the liberated, wicked Western woman with the safety net of basic submissive familiarity. ~ Bharati Mukherjee

There was no detectable association between gliomas and cell phone use overall. Prevention experts, and phone-addicted teenagers, may have rejoiced - but only briefly. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Although cancer is not universally caused by viruses, certain viruses cause particular cancers, such as the human papilloma virus (HPV), which causes cervical cancer. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

One writes what one can, or has to, write. ~ Neel Mukherjee

I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Leukemia was a malignant proliferation of white cells in the blood. It was cancer in a molten, liquid form. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me. ~ Bharati Mukherjee

Three profoundly destabilizing scientific ideas ricochet through the twentieth century, trisecting it into three unequal parts: the atom, the byte, the gene. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot. ~ Bharati Mukherjee

An Irish surgeon, Denis Burkitt, discovered an aggressive form of lymphoma - now called Burkitt's lymphoma - ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Things are so different now that it feels they were all different people then, like characters you read about in a book, not the younger version of your own self. ~ Neel Mukherjee

Cancer is a flaw in our growth, but this flaw is deeply entrenched in ourselves. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Never a cell biologist at heart, as a colleague recalled, he contaminated the cells, infected the cultures, and grew out balls of fungi in the petri dishes. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Is there something I can do to kill the cancer germ? Can the rooms be fumigated ... ? Should I give up my lease and move out? ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

The trial designed to bring the most rigorous statistical analysis to the cause of lung cancer barely required elementary mathematics to prove its point. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

In 2004, a rash of early scientific reports suggested that cell phones, which produce radio frequency energy, might cause a fatal form of brain cancer called a glioma. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

In 1788, the Chimney Sweepers Act was passed in Parliament, preventing master sweeps from employing children under eight (children over eight were allowed to be apprenticed). ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Gliomas appeared on the same side of the brain that the phone was predominantly held, further tightening the link. An avalanche of panic ensued in the media. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

By now the perpetually changing landscape of breast cancer was beginning to tire him out. Trials, tables, and charts had never been his forte; he was a surgeon, not a bookkeeper. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

The word metastasis, used to describe the migration of cancer from one site to another, is a curious mix of meta and stasis - "beyond stillness" in Latin - an ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

If something is good, more is not necessarily better. Not always. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Medicine, I said, begins with storytelling. Patients tell stories to describe illness; doctors tell stories to understand it. Science tells its own story to explain diseases. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Bill by bill, and letter by letter, his scientific imagination was slowly choked by administrative work. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children? ~ Bharati Mukherjee

Whether epidemiology alone can, in strict logic, ever prove causality, even in this modern sense, may be questioned, but the same must also be said of laboratory experiments on animals. - Richard Doll ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Cancer is not a concentration camp, but it shares the quality of annihilation: it negates the possibility of life outside and beyond itself; it subsumes all living. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Maybe it doesn't matter how smart you are or aren't, but how much you are willing to learn. ~ Geetanjali Mukherjee

It's making life important, making a single life important, rather than having a prescription for the global ills which afflict us. ~ Bharati Mukherjee

And this was to save rats, right? Or mice? You spent all this money to save mice the problem of developing tumors? ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

In New York in the 1910s, William B. Coley, James Ewing, and Ernest Codman had treated bone sarcomas with a mixture of bacterial toxins - the so-called Coley's toxin. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Why did they all think alike? Typical bourgeois brainwashed homogeneity? How else could this unvarying calculus abouth the worth of one's own kind measured against the lives of others have come about? ~ Neel Mukherjee

It was like dawn, and then dusk cascading over the Himalayas. First, the gradual brightening over snow and contour, then the shining, sparkling sun mirrored; and then as the moment of joy passed – the lingering colour-changing light; reluctant to leave. That faint, bittersweet almost-light, and then indigo outlines and inky black. ~ Radhika Mukherjee

The true lessons to be learned from Albert Speer are those that help us to recognize the Albert Speers living amongst us. ~ Geetanjali Mukherjee

Yet the personal choice to smoke is ... the same kind of choice as the driver who downed the beers, and then the telephone pole. - Open letter from the tobacco industry, 1988 ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Prasanta, who was later going to be sorry to see Purba go, experienced the dazed detachment someone feels when events they ignited go far beyond a reasonable trajectory they had imagined. ~ Neel Mukherjee

Cancer is not one disease but many diseases. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Min Chiu Li, the researcher who had been expelled from the institute for treating women with placental tumors with methotrexate long after their tumors had visibly disappeared. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire? ~ Bharati Mukherjee

I'm much more attracted to the miscegenation of cultures than to harmony. ~ Neel Mukherjee

It is not what you have," as a certain Brazilian samba instructor once told me, "it is what you do with it. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer. ~ Neel Mukherjee

One does not find soulmates.. soulmates 'happen' unannounced in some turn of this deliciously unpredictable journey called life, often when we are not even 'groomed for the occasion ~ Sourabh Mukherjee

Numbers never lie; one can make them, of course, as one can make anything speak another story in another tongue, but they do not have the inherent falsehood that words carry. ~ Neel Mukherjee

Our ability to read out this sequence of our own genome has the makings of a philosophical paradox. Can an intelligent being comprehend the instructions to make itself? - John Sulston Scholars ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee