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 the betterment of the human race. I despair of the helter-skelter methods of our vaulted homo sapiens, misguided by his ignorance and his politicians. If we continue our ways, there is every possibility that the human race may follow the road of former living races of animals whose fossils proclaim that they were not fit to continue. Religion, laws and morals is not enough. We need more. Science can help us.
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
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
I also served on many government committees. - Leo Baekeland
I also served on many government committees.
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
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