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"The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life."
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"It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams."

"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."

"Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level."

"I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned."

"The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal."

"A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement."

"The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department."

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

"The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote."
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