Paul D. Boyer Quotations

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 of losing family members to most types of cancer.

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 adventures.

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.

Minnesota has generally competent and honest public officials, good support of the schools and cultural amenities, and an excellent state university.