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"This led to the discovery that long chain fatty acids would remarkably stabilize serum albumin to heat denaturation, and would even reverse the denaturation by heat or concentrated urea solutions."
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"But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforeseen consequences like the whole violent hiccuping thing when conjuring up fire - or the propensity for fillings to fall out of bystanders' teeth when attempting to tease a rainstorm out of a cloud."

"It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes."

"You certainly usually find something if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after."

"We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth."
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"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 participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding."
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