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

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

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.

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

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.

It is fatal to forget the heavenly Father.

Condition a woman (or a man) to value submission above all other attitudes and you will produce a character type whose most readily expressed emotion will be sadness.

One of the most remarkable contributions of humans to the world is our capacity for ideas.

Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem.

That if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden.

A patient healthy enough to undergo a kidney transplant might someday no longer need dialysis. That would free up a slot for a new patient.

On the day that your mentality Decides to catch up with your biology, Come 'round