Leo Baekeland Quotes
- 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…
- How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success.
- 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…
- 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…
- Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930
- 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…
- In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.
- I also served on many government committees.