Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.

I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs.

I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.

All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the study of model systems and the pursuit of fundamental biological principles.