I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I stress the relevance of my work for cancer research because I believe that science must be useful to man.
Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.
I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.
My mom and brother are both doctors, and it seems crazy that so many people think science is a mutable idea.
I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.
I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm involved in. Science gives hope.
My father happened to be a doctor, and though I loved and idealized him privately, professionally I never had any use for him or anyone connected with that science.
From my earliest days I had a passion for science.
I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm involved in. Science gives hope. If it were offered to me? Never say never. But I wouldn't kill or steal to have my sight. My blindness doesn't define my life.
I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.