Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands of a child, an idiot, a criminal, a drunkard or an insane man, it may cause havoc, misery, suffering and crime. Science and religion have this in common, that their noble aims, their power for good, have often, with wrong men, deteriorated into a boomerang to the human race.
I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shape… - Leo Baekeland
I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shape…
- Leo Baekeland
How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success. - Leo Baekeland
How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success.
In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899. - Leo Baekeland
In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands of a child, an i… - Leo Baekeland
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands of a child, an i…
If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try to add my humble efforts to use Science to… - Leo Baekeland
If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try to add my humble efforts to use Science to…
Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million doll… - Leo Baekeland
Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million doll…
Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930 - Leo Baekeland
Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930
I also served on many government committees. - Leo Baekeland
I also served on many government committees.
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