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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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"Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map."

"The apothecary's name was Owlglass. He hummed to himself as he worked in his back room. He'd found a new type of blue fluff, which he was grinding down. It was probably good for curing something. He'd have to try it out on people until he found out what."

"There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery."

"To find doesn't always require to search."

"He and I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the pearl was there."

"There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within."
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"More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding."

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

"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."

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

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

"If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer."

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

"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."
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