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

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.

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.

Today we fight. Tomorrow we fight. The day after, we fight. And if this disease plans on whipping us, it better bring a lunch, 'cause it's gonna have a long day doing it.

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

All of my films I've made have had an element of physicality and action but I really enjoy the drama of it because it's where I feel I'm really doing something.

I'm always nervous before I go on stage, but once I'm out there everything is great and it's my favorite place to be.

It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don't really have that much control with it.

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.

Scientists should continue doing what they've always done, which is to understand the Earth as well as they can.

A gastronomical supermeal didn't necessarily have to involve the things I had brought from other top kitchens.

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.