Quotes
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Stephanie Kwolek

"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 Quotes #Science Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.”
“We want to see the newest things. That is because we want to see the future, even if only momentarily. It is the moment in which, even if we don't completely understand what we have glimpsed, we are nonetheless touched by it. This is what we have come to call art.”
“Itâ€™s like irresistible poison: Iâ€™m mesmerized by the way itâ€™s making me feel though it has the potential to crush my soul and I drink it down anyway.”
“Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.”
“Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul”
“In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow.”
“I don’t think men have time to be funny because they have to make all of our rules about what we can do with our vaginas.”
“She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.”

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