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It would be really great if I discovered a cure for cancer, but it would only be a little bit less great if my neighbor did. So I am pretty happy when my neighbor becomes wealthier, better educated and more innovative. I feel the same about China and India.

— Alex Tabarrok

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there.

— Jung Chang

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

— Bono

So many of us have friends or family who have battled cancer, and we know how important it is to find a cure.

— Ted Deutch

I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.

— Aaron Ciechanover

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

— Bill Gates

We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.

— Patrick Soon-Shiong

✗Opposing Perspectives

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

— Kurt Vonnegut

It's one thing to recognize that the gap between the rich and everybody else is growing like a cancer; it's another thing to come up with useful solutions.

— Molly Ivins

It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

— Bill Gates