More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

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.

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.

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.

Putting 100% effort into "trying" will always make you successful. With that in mind it's important to remember that the effort part is never easy.

In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers.

Back in high school, my buddies tried to put the make on anything that moved. I told them, Why limit yourselves?

I think the technology today is so much more advanced that it gives kids a lot more freedom... Back then it was a lot different.

Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.

I accept the historical challenge, and with that, I accept the essentially Christian position that God always has more light to break out of his holy Word.

Take a look around, there are misfits everywhere.

He who does not feed you can demand nothing of you.

When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.