During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).

After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.

My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem.

I have always loved going to school.

I believe love is like war: we only know how it starts, and nobody knows how it will end.

In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society.

One clear moment, one of trance One missed step, one perfect dance One missed shot, one and only chance Life is all...but one fleeting glance.

To disobey God’s law is to forfeit your relationship with him

If you cannot find peace where you stand you shall not find it where you land.

It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.

I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.

Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling in all matters of personal choice.

Where there is no honour, there is no griefe.

If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.