Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.

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.

A trusting heart will follow, only those who truly follow their heart.

The world is round, so there is no corner for anyone to lean against

When the truffles arrived the paintings leaned off the wall toward them.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift except the gift of the power to use them.

In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

The greatest possession we have costs nothing; it's known as love.

For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip.

This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.

Subatomic particles exist in all possible states until they are observed - at which point something definite emerges from the soup of possibilities.

Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother!