Varmus Op Ed Quotes & Sayings

Assume nothing,'" he said. The first chapter of the Tactics. "If we figure everyone might be a murderer, we're less likely to be disappointed. — Brian Staveley

The system of Descartes ... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand. — Voltaire

My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations. — Josh Charles

I'd studied her face in a dozen shades of light, in a thousand stolen moments. — Kiera Cass

Can nothingness be so prodigal? — Sylvia Plath

Compassion is a mental quality that can bring us true lasting inner peace and inner strength. — Dalai Lama

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind. — Dallas Willard

You can't regret what you can't remember. — Lisa Birnbach

You can't allow people freedom and then change your mind when the things don't go your way. — Penn Jillette

We don't have to stop inventing abstract models that describe the behavior of imaginary Econs. We do, however, have to stop assuming that those models are accurate descriptions of behavior, and stop basing policy decisions on such flawed analyses. — Richard H. Thaler

There is a certain irony in the fact that Britain gave the world nearly all its most important geological names - Devonian, Cambrian, Silurian, Ordovician - but that the one epoch that everybody knows about is named for the Jura Mountains in France, even though the Dorset coast is actually the best place in the world to see Jurassic outcrops. — Bill Bryson

Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night. — Bram Stoker

When in doubt, go back to sleep. — T.K. Toppin