"The experience reminds me of a favorite saying:……" — Paul D. Boyer
"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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22 Quotes by Paul D. Boyer
Paul D. Boyer has 22 quotes on this site.
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Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.
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It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome…
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If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren…
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Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.
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Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars…
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In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two…
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During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar.
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An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.
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A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and…
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Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.
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I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
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More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied…
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More Coal Quotes
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I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of…
— David Bailey
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
— Philip James Bailey
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I do a job and am lucky enough to do a job that I love, but it is a hard…
— Javier Bardem
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ…
— Annie Besant
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This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of…
— Aneurin Bevan
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
— Bono
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I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel…
— Jeff Buckley
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After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine.
— Drew Carey
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James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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But the way to overcome is by patience, forgiving and praying for your enemies, in doing whereof you heap coals…
— Samuel Rutherford
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...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe…
— Maya Angelou
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