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