At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

At the time my dog had a fungus on her chest that wouldn't heal and resisted treatment. I made an ointment with our product and it cleared up in two days. She lived to 17 years.

I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.

I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires.

My family gave me the best in education.

In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.

I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science.

To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world.

… between the irrational promoted in churches and the Darwinian pseudo-science taught in schools, a revolution in the way we understand reality is not only necessary but also long overdue.

The consumer is not a moron she is your wife.

When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!

Miles Davis is one who writes songs when he plays.

I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.

Know your lover and what delights him or her, but also what he/she considers inappropriate. After all, you want to whet their appetite and create excitement, rather than make them upset.

You never know how people are going to respond.

Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

I dress up with a conscience when I think you'll be watching. I say all the right things, I don't know what I mean.