In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.

During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar.

I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.

The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.

Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.

A bit of fantasy can be good for ones heart

Life's just a dream. It isn't real. I know that you can't see that yet. You want me to wake up but in my death I did wake up and I saw you were still sleeping.

A place with no handholds, no landmarks, no past at all:That would have been too much like dying

I want to live like there's no tomorrow. Love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive.

Left-leaning policies - I'm 52 years old, I've been to Cuba, I've been to dysfunctional state oriented places - left-leaning policies fail the lower and middle classes.

O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.

There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the fundamental energy of the universe.

Elvis is dead and I don't feel so good for myself.

As night falls, every joy glows brighter.

True progress is slow but sure.