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… — Leo Baekeland Copy Share
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,… — Leo Baekeland Copy Share
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
