Harald Zur Hausen Quotes

#1. Nothing is more abhorrent to me than sugary-sweet photography full of pretense, poses, and gimmickry. For this reason, I have allowed myself to tell the truth about our times and people in a sincere manner.

August Sander

#2. Narrators are often unreliable, and part of the reader's pleasure is figuring out what's really true. The

Lisa Cron

#3. As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.

Harald Zur Hausen

#4. The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.

Ang Lee

#5. Regional clustering of specific cancer types triggered some investigations on a potential role of infectious agents in these malignant proliferations.

Harald Zur Hausen

#6. Whereas HIV only in recent decades became infectious for humans, high risk papillomavirus types have in all likelihood been with us for millions of years, accompanying the human race since the early days of our evolution.

Harald Zur Hausen

#7. I'm a very emotional player. I use emotion because my team feeds off it.

Jermaine O'Neal

#8. Maybe I should mention it: I was not from the beginning mainly interested in papilloma virus; I was mainly interested in infectious agents in human cancer. So papilloma viruses came up as the most likely candidate from my viewpoint.

Harald Zur Hausen

#9. Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.

Harald Zur Hausen

#10. It is important to note that there exist vast gender differences in the global role of papillomaviruses in human cancers. This is mainly due to the role of this virus family in the induction of cancer of the cervix.

Harald Zur Hausen

#11. Education and science is an anathema for all religion.

Stefan Vucak

#12. After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn. The first two years were particularly hard, since I simultaneously decided to attend lectures and courses in biology as well.

Harald Zur Hausen

#13. In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.

Harald Zur Hausen

#14. I am my best self when I have super-short hair. That's when I feel most like me and most confident.

Halle Berry

#15. as if he were talking to a police artist: Yes, officer, that's the girl who stole my heart!

Rick Riordan

#16. To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

Emile M. Cioran

#17. Most of the infections linked to human cancers are common in human populations; they are ubiquitous. They were present during the whole human evolution process.

Harald Zur Hausen

#18. The lock doesn't exist that could resist absolute violence, and all locks are an invitation to thieves. A lock is a psychological threshold.

Gaston Bachelard