Institute for Cancer Research can refer to at least two separate organizations:
- American Institute for Cancer Research, located in Washington, DC
- Institute for Cancer Research (founded in 1927); in 1974, it merged with the American Oncologic Hospital (founded in 1904) to become Fox Chase Cancer Center, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Famous quotes containing the words institute, cancer and/or research:
“Whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying it’s foundation on such principles & organising it’s powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety & happiness.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, and Balanchine ballets don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.”
—Peter B. Medawar (1915–1987)