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

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.

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.

We anyway have to THINKWhy not think BIGWe anyway have to WORKWhy not do what we LOVE

A poet has a sacred duty. He has to hear unsung songs and see unseen beauty.

Forgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

Usually You Pick The Winning Numbers When You’re Not Willing To Play.

After we bring food home from the grocery store...Dogs must think we are the greatest hunters ever!

Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.

Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you

I've seen enough crazy shots to know they happen in the best of families.

I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.