After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the…

Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In…

— Gertrude B. Elion

In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.

— Anonymous

My brother has a Ph.D. in biochemistry, which I find so totally impressive.

— Kerry Bishe

Beyond natural history Other biological sciences take up the study at other levels of organization: dissecting the individual into organs and tissues and seeing…

— Marston Bates

We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology and paleontology…

— Kenneth R. Miller

To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full…

— Rupert Sheldrake

Casein [the main protein found in dairy], in fact, is the most 'relevant' chemical carcinogen ever identified; its cancer-producin g effects occur in animals…

— T. Colin Campbell

“It is one of the striking generalizations of biochemistry—which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical text-books—that the twenty amino acids and the…

— Francis Crick

The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had…

— Paul D. Boyer

“I would not be among you to-night (being awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) but for the mentors, colleagues and students…

— Konrad Bloch

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.

— Paul D. Boyer

It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep.

— Ida Rolf

Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain…

— Paul D. Boyer

We look at the human body as a biochemical machine controlled by genes and therefore we see a mechanical aspect to life and then…

— Bruce H. Lipton

My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex substances which…

— Frederick Gowland Hopkins