William Standish Knowles Quotes

#1. 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 Andover, another boarding school.

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

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#3. To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

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#4. My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

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#5. I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science.

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#6. 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.

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#7. I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires.

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#8. In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.

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#9. In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe.

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#10. My family gave me the best in education.

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

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#12. I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.

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

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#14. I was particularly good at math and science.

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