1950s Quote by Alan J. Heeger

Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistoric time. Although organic chemistry as a…

— Alan J. Heeger

It will be very hard to convince everyone in the world to handle their plastics responsibly, but what we humans are very good in,…

— Boyan Slat

I just want to say one word to you-just one word ..."plastics!" ... There's a great future in plastics.

— Buck Henry

“Manufacturers have long chosen plastic for their products on the basis of price and functionality., But creating a more sustainable relationship with plastics will…

— Susan Freinkel

I've always loved plastics and rubber, and it's such a specifically unique material that you have to have the manufacturing abilities to make it.

— Jeremy Scott

In view of the experience I had acquired in the field of chemical industry, certain Italian government and industrial bodies entrusted me in 1938…

— Giulio Natta

Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and…

— Janine Benyus

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

As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle…

— Otto Wallach

I think Oppenheimer Analysis had the most accessible material for commercial success. Martin Dupont, Deux, Linear Movement, Moderne and Stereo held a lot of…

— Veronica Vasicka

When it comes to producing breakthroughs, both technological and artistic, Pixar's track record is unique. In the early 1990s, we were known as the…

— Edwin Catmull

“Engineers and mechanics were as much products of the industrialization process as the material goods and the machinery by which those goods were produced.”

— Thomas Sowell