History repeats, but science reverberates.

- Siddhartha Mukherjee

Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos

- Siddhartha Mukherjee

All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.

- Siddhartha Mukherjee

Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.

- Siddhartha Mukherjee

I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options …

- Siddhartha Mukherjee

If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism o…

- Siddhartha Mukherjee

Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.

- Siddhartha Mukherjee

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

- Siddhartha Mukherjee

Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening an il…

- Siddhartha Mukherjee