Charles Brenton Huggins

“The control of cancer must be sought in the study of the autonomous cell.”

“Discovery is our business. We are not owners of the discovery. We are only the custodians.”

“One of the great but lesser-known contributions of the great men of the past is that they eat their own mistakes.”

“Research is a high-hat word that scares a lot of people. It needn't. It is rather simple. It is nothing but a state of mind—a friendly, welcoming attitude toward change.”

“Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.”

“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.”

“A discovery is a new and significant idea, and the criterion of its significance is its generality.”

“The goal is to live a full, productive life without injury to others.”