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

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

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.

Every book is a journey, a map into the complexities of the human mind and soul.

Desire to give and not always receive.

Women think that they can make sad things go away by knowing the reason that they happened.

God's laws are God's blessings to humanity.

A win tonight is the minimum City must achieve

A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.

Immigration is not just compatible with but is a necessary component of economic growth.

When I was in my 40s was I simply produced my own movies because no one offered me anything. But certainly after 50 it's hard for a woman, which is why television is such a welcoming thing.

Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable.

I write poems to find out why I write them