Leo Baekeland Quotes

#1. What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination.

Robert Breault

#2. I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining.

Iron & Wine

#3. 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

#4. Making mistakes is important because it makes you wiser.

Debasish Mridha

#5. 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

#6. Ashington, where the human rights of terrorists are often given high priority. And I am certain liberal politicians would defend their position to the death. Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.

Marcus Luttrell

#7. I used to have to think about awful things to get myself emotionally connected to something.

Hilarie Burton

#8. How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success.

Leo Baekeland

#9. I want to be better."
"Then be better. Accept the fact that God didn't bring you this far only to abandon you. He isn't that kind of father. And you won't be either.

Sylvain Reynard

#10. Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930.

Leo Baekeland

#11. T-shirt with the saying I May Be Old, but I Got to See All the Cool Bands.

Paul Levine