Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.

No, not conquer, that is too foolish a world. Any man who scales a mountain is still but a man, a transient speck compared to the immensity and permanence of a mountain .

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

It was so smoky. I was a little freaked out because we were on the top of that mountain, and we could see the smoke from all the fires.

The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote.

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.