One of my motivations to become a blood specialist was to study malaria in red blood cells. But in science, you discover something and you want to go this way, but your work goes that way.

Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.

The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.

I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.

Well, all life forms are dependent upon water.

Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.

Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.

My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.

The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.

My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary.

So many went on a quest to tame her, The only man to win her heart was the one Who was also free.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.

My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.

My dream is that people will come to view eating an animal as cannibalism.

Acting was my first love.

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

If we artists are to survive this period at all - we will survive as spokesmen, never again as entertainers.

My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

I've gotten so many compliments for having nice feet.