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Courage Quote of the Day


Bert Vogelstein, Cancer Researcher

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Bert Vogelstein

Cancer Researcher

The father of this little girl was a mathematician and I related to him quite a bit from my college days. And, he just wanted to know, why "my little girl" got this terrible disease, why her, and why this plague? And, I just shook up my hands. "I don't know, nobody knows." It's just this total black box, this thing that just struck people randomly, when they shouldn't be struck. And, right then and there it became clear to me that, if I wanted to spend my life on a puzzle, on a problem that I could apply my skills towards, that was going to be a good one.
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