"In the laboratory, we call this the six-degrees-of-separation-from-cancer rule: you can ask any biological question, no matter how seemingly distant-what makes the heart fail, or why worms age, or even how birds learn songs-and you will end up, in fewer than six genetic steps, connecting with a proto-oncogene or tumor suppressor."

-- Siddhartha Mukherjee

#Song Quotes #Cancer Quotes #Heart Quotes

“You know you're grown up when summer is just a season.”

Source : Michael Greger (1999). “Heart failure: diary of a third year medical student”
“If you are made for flight, intended for it, you had better find a pursuer, fast. Otherwise, all that fleeing is going nowhere.”

Source : "Titian Vs. Roadrunner" by Dan Chiasson, www.newyorker.com. March 29, 2010.
“Once in the racket you're always in it.”
“Pathology, probably more than any other branch of science, suffers from heroes and hero-worship. Rudolf Virchow has been its archangel and William Welch its John the Baptist, while Paracelsus and Cohnheim have been relegated to the roles of Lucifer and Beelzebub. ... Actually, there are no heroes in Pathology-all of the great thoughts permitting advance have been borrowed from other fields, and the renaissance of pathology stems not from pathology itself but from the philosophers Kant and Goethe.”
“I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness.”

Source : Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L. C. Simms (2003). “The invention of Morel”, New York Review of Books
“It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible.”
“It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.”
“I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'”

Source : "Iron Maiden". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. July 27, 2009.

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