If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is what research does; it smooths out contradictions and makes things simple, logical, and coherent.

I always tried to live up to Leo Szilard's commandment, "don't lie if you don't have to." I had to. I filled up pages with words and plans I knew I would not follow. When I go home from my laboratory in the late afternoon, I often do not know what I am going to do the next day. I expect to think that up during the night. How could I tell them what I would do a year hence?

If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly.

I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.

This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.

In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.

Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse.