“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.”

Every aspect of the world today – even politics and international relations – is affected by chemistry.

But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe – and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.

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

We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same basic mechanism used in producing those striking structures that are crystals, with their beautiful plane faces.

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.

Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.

Like thousands of other boys, I had a little chemical laboratory in our cellar and think that some of our friends thought me a bit crazy.

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

I think every person should be able to enjoy life. Try to decide what you most enjoy doing, and then look around to see if there is a job for which you could prepare yourself that would enable you to continue having this sort of joy.

Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.

There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.

Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.

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

Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.

No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.

Life is a relationship between molecules.