Leo Baekeland famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Children #Men #Hands
How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success.
-- Leo Baekeland

#Success #People #Details
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 humble efforts to use Science to the betterment of the human race. I despair of the helter-skelter methods of our vaulted ***** sapiens, misguided by his ignorance and his politicians. If we continue our ways, there is every possibility that the human race may follow the road of former living races of animals whose fossils proclaim that they were not fit to continue. Religion, laws and morals is not enough. We need more. Science can help us.
-- Leo Baekeland

#Humble #Ignorance #Humility
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 shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.
-- Leo Baekeland

#Trying #Different #Shapes
Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930
-- Leo Baekeland

#President #Corporations #1930s
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 for 1 million dollars.
-- Leo Baekeland

#Photography #Dollars #Paper
In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.
-- Leo Baekeland

#Chemicals #Company #Ran
I also served on many government committees.
-- Leo Baekeland

#Government #Committees

There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.
I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.
As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.

Leo Baekeland famous quotes

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