"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."

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"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."

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"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."

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