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

My family gave me the best in education.

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

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

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.

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