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

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.

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.

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

Talk is cheap...It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in.

I thought I would have a quiet pint ... and about 17 noisy ones.

I am a pretty crazy person, so it's best for me to be on my own most of the time.

I would never give artificial birth control to an unmarried person.

It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice.

I will be brave, thought Despereaux. I will try to be brave like a knight in shining armour. I will be brave for the Princess Pea.

Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.

I have a big problem with Islam.

In a general way, a major goal of the propagandist is to seek some kind of authoritative backing for the belief he or she is propagating.