That enormously complex biological interactions are so flawlessly coordinated as to result in such obvious manifestations as human thought or the electrical activity that dries the heartbeat is as exciting to me — actually more...

Though everyone may yearn for a tranquil death, the basic instinct to stay alive is a far more powerful force

Hope can still exist even when rescue is impossible.

In the community of living tissues, the uncontrolled mob of misfits that is cancer behaves like a gang of perpetually wilding adolescents. They are the juvenile delinquents of cellular society.

My mother died of colon cancer one week after my eleventh birthday, and that fact has shaped my life. All that I have become and much that I have not become, I trace directly or...

The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science