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• Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but…
• 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…
• I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be…
• 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…
• In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.
• I also served on many government committees.

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