William Standish Knowles Quotes
- At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.
- My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.
- To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
- I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.
- I was particularly good at math and science.
- Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.
- 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.
- 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…
- I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science.
- I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.
- My family gave me the best in education.
- At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at…
- In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe.