Leo Baekeland Quotes

On this page you can find the TOP of Leo Baekeland's best quotes! We hope you will find some sayings from Chemist Leo Baekeland's in our collection, which will inspire you to new achievements! There are currently 8 quotes on this page collected since November 14, 1863! Share our collection of quotes with your friends on social media so that they can find something to inspire them!
All quotes by Leo Baekeland: more...
  • 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.

  • 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 homo 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.

  • In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.

    Chemicals   Company   Ran  
  • How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success.

  • 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.

  • Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930

  • 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.

  • I also served on many government committees.

Page 1 of 1
We hope you have found the saying you were looking for in our collection! At the moment, we have collected 8 quotes from the Chemist Leo Baekeland, starting from November 14, 1863! We periodically replenish our collection so that visitors of our website can always find inspirational quotes by authors from all over the world! Come back to us again!
Leo Baekeland quotes about: