Siddhartha Mukherjee

I wish someone had told me at my own commencement that the one and only requirement for graduation was that I had to emerge out of the closed, cordoned-off space of my own head. I had to learn to listen.

We are the only species that can learn to think like another of our own species; the only one that records and remembers its history; the only one that tries to decipher the laws of the universe.

When a grown man says he wants a cookie, he wants a cookie. The art of doctoring is negotiating with hope.