My family gave me the best in education.

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.

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.

Self-employed people work where they live. Entrepreneurs live where they work.

The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm 'O God you will save me if you wish but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight.'

Three women walk into a pub and say, 'Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'

Embrace the glorious mess that you are

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

There is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter.

I don't want no better book than what your face is.

Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!

Just as I defend myself, therefore, From all unpleasant happenings however small, Likewise, I shall act for others' sake To guard and to protect them with compassion.

A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.