Paul D. Boyer Quotes

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• Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.
• 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.
• 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…
• Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.
• 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…
• 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.
• During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar.
• An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.
• A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.
• Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.
• I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
• More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.
• The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.
• I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information.
• I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.
• It was always assumed that I would go to college.
• The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.
• 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…
• The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote.
• 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…

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