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"An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel."
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"Everywhere I travel to, there is my home."

"Life is a journey through either experiences or experiment."

"Looking for a good book to read and a great teacher to listen to? Here is a good book and here is a great teacher: Other cultures! To read this book and to listen to this teacher, all you need is to travel!"

"When travelling, concentrate on the path! Don't sleep! Don't read! Just live the journey in full by observing the path instead of wandering in your own world!"

"Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!"
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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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