Harold E. Varmus Quotes

I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.

But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.

Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.

I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.

I've always been a serious computer nerd, as well as a biologist.

Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.

There's so much I'm interested in that I didn't discover in high school. For 'The Amazing Spider-Man', because Gwen is a scientist, we went to a lab in San Diego, and we were learning about biology. And I'm fascinated! Because I never went to biology class in high school.

The science of life is changing hearts and minds.

In my early work, our molecular views of telomeres were first focused on the DNA.

April 25th is DNA Day. I know, you probably had no idea.

My degree is in biology, and it will always be my first love. Evolution, ecology, genetics - they were the textbooks I was devouring as a teenager, and it was there that my love of science grew.

Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides—that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the physiologist, the embryologist, the cytologist—but the mechanism of heredity can be studied best by the investigation of the germ cells and their development.

Decoding the human genome is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science. I believe that reading our blueprints, cataloguing our own instruction book, will be judged by history as more significant than even splitting the atom or going to the moon.

We have discovered over 95 percent of all the genes that have been discovered by science off the deck of my sailboat.

We have discovered the secret of life.

I am trained as a psychologist, and I think of all human issues in terms of psychology, neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary theory.

I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'

I like biology a lot.

I studied psychology at university.

I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling.

Biology is a way of approaching the truth about the mind. In biology most people don't tackle problems at the level of complexity that psychoanalysis does. But psychoanalysis has a degree of uncertainty about it. A psychoanalyst may have some deep insights, but cannot, at the moment, run experiments to establish whether it's really the truth.

In this atmosphere I soon became interested in nucleic acids.

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

I really enjoyed my degree, for me it was the best course you can do. To be able to study the brain and nervous system and the mind with a scientific approach is just incredible! Its philosophical, psychological and biological, three very interesting areas to me.

I like problems at the borders of disciplines. One of the reasons that neurobiology of learning and memory appeal to me so much was that I liked the idea of bringing biology and psychology together.