I went to work for Climax in 1947. I didn't have a car, but things were simple, you could walk anywhere it was so small.

There was a road running along the west side of our lot. But the town of Frisco hadn't put in the streets as they are today.

I stopped working the day I had my first child in October, 1954. Although after 20 years I went back to work, first part-time filling in for the other nurses, then full-time. I retired for good in 1982.

I had to chip cement off some of the tiles. But, oh well. You do what you have to do.

Scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium, a benefit

I was working with a very difficult Doctor. The Doctor gave me some orders for the Patient. I then asked him "Would you also like me too peel you a grape"? From then on any Doctor that was difficult was always asked "Are we in a Peel Me a Grape Mood Today?