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

...It would be possible to make much more progress than has been made if the NCI knew its job better, knew how to make discoveries...The NCI really does not know how to make discoveries....So long as the NCI is not willing to follow up ideas that seem good to people who have had experience making discoveries, the work of the NCI is going to be pedestrian.

By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.

Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.

[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.

You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.

In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.