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

In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.

- Leo Baekeland

How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success.

- Leo Baekeland

Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930

- Leo Baekeland

I also served on many government committees.

- 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…

- 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

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