Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

I hear from patients who say their doctor said, 'If you want to take Vitamin C, go ahead and do it. It won't harm you, and it may do you some good.' More and more physicians are getting convinced about the value of large doses of Vitamin C.

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

It was obvious-to me at any rate-that the answer was to why an enzyme is able to speed up a chemical reaction by as much as 10 million times. It had to do this by lowering the energy of activation-the energy of forming the activated complex. It could do this by forming strong bonds with the activated complex, but only weak bonds with the reactants or products.

The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.