“I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much.”
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American biochemist and pharmacologist 1918–1999Related quotes

On meeting with a group assembled by David Rockefeller, New York Times (14 September 1986)
"The Idol's Eye", The Most of S. J. Perelman (1992) p. 32.
'So death was a nice thing,' I thought. 'Then why does it make me miserable?'
As quoted by Brian Masters (2011), Killing for Company, Random House, p. 46, ISBN 1446428737

Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect But Plenty of Sex and Drugs (2004), p. 9