William Standish Knowles Quotes

"My family gave me the best in education."
- William Standish Knowles
(Related: Education, Family)

"To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession."
- William Standish Knowles
(Related: Business, Mother, Father, Medicine, Profession)

"Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background."
- William Standish Knowles

"In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe."
- William Standish Knowles

"In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics."
- William Standish Knowles
(Related: Class)

"I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires."
- William Standish Knowles
(Related: Colors, Forget)

"I was particularly good at math and science."
- William Standish Knowles
(Related: Science)

"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."
- William Standish Knowles
(Related: Time, Treatment, Years)

"I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain."
- William Standish Knowles
(Related: Work)

"I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford."
- William Standish Knowles
(Related: June)

"At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math."
- William Standish Knowles

"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."
- William Standish Knowles
(Related: College, School)

"I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science."
- William Standish Knowles
(Related: Science, Relatives)