Stephanie Kwolek famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

All sorts of things can happen when youâ€™re open to new ideas and playing around with things.
-- Stephanie Kwolek

#Ideas
I was working with these very long-chain ... extended-chain polymers, where you had a lot of benzene rings in them. ... Transforming a polymer solution from a liquid to a fiber requires a process called spinning. ... We spun it and it spun beautifully. It [Kevlar] was very strong and very stiff-unlike anything we had made before. I knew that I had made a discovery. I didn't shout "Eureka!" but I was very excited, as was the whole laboratory excited, and management was excited, because we were looking for something new. Something different. And this was it.
-- Stephanie Kwolek

#Strong #Science #Discovery
[At DuPont,] I was very fortunate that I worked under men who were very much interested in making discoveries and inventions. They were very much interested in what they were doing, and they left me alone. And I was able to experiment on my own, and I found this very stimulating. It appealed to the creative person in me.
-- Stephanie Kwolek

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I tell young people to reach for the stars. And I can't think of a greater high than you could possibly get than by inventing something.
-- Stephanie Kwolek

#Stars #Science #Thinking

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.
My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.
I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson
Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israelâ€™s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.
The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.

Stephanie Kwolek famous quotes

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