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 shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite. — Leo Baekeland Copy Share Image
If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try to add… — Leo Baekeland Copy Share Image
Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman… — Leo Baekeland Copy Share Image
I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into… — Leo Baekeland Copy Share Image
How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success. — Leo Baekeland Copy Share Image
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… — Leo Baekeland Copy Share Image
