"Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands……" — Leo Baekeland

Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult… - Leo Baekeland

"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 of a child, an idiot, a criminal, a drunkard or an insane man, it may cause havoc, misery, suffering and crime. Science and religion have this in common, that their noble aims, their power for good, have often, with wrong men, deteriorated into a boomerang to the human race."

— Leo Baekeland

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