Few people realize what a handicap it is to be what people call a beautiful woman. I'm glad, of course, that I don't look like an unmade bed, but too often, I'm just taken at face value. And there aren't many men who believe a beautiful woman can have any brains.

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• William Standish Knowles:

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

• William Standish Knowles:

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

• William Standish Knowles:

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

• William Standish Knowles:

  My family gave me the best in education.

• William Standish Knowles:

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

• William Standish Knowles:

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

• William Standish Knowles:

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

• William Standish Knowles:

  I was particularly good at math and science.

• William Standish Knowles:

  At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a sec

• William Standish Knowles:

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