Kwolek Stephanie Quotes & Sayings

It is better to have nothing, for at last even our bones will fall. It is better to have nothing. — Marilynne Robinson

Not long ago, I got to meet some troopers whose lives had been saved. They came with their wives, their children, their parents. It was a very moving occasion. — Stephanie Kwolek

Even in my neighborhood, the kids come to me for interviews for their term papers. I ask them later what grades they got, and they're always A-pluses. — Stephanie Kwolek

All sorts of things can happen when you're open to new ideas and playing around with things. — Stephanie Kwolek

I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment. — John Steinbeck

As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. — Oscar Wilde

Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm very involved in FIU. I'm class of '96 and my wife is class of '97. I'm a member of the foundation board. We talk about where the university is strategically and the evolution of programs for the near and distant future. — Danny Pino

I guess that's just the life of an inventor: what people do with your ideas takes you totally by surprise. — 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

[At DuPont,] I was very fortunate that I worked under men who were very much interested in making discoveries and inventions. They were very much interested in what they were doing, and they left me alone. And I was able to experiment on my own, and I found this very stimulating. It appealed to the creative person in me. — Stephanie Kwolek

Hmm. Relationships between fathers and sons can be notoriously difficult, especially for two men who are as different as you and your father are."
"Yes, and he's also the king
that makes our relationship impossible. — Lynn Austin

I tell young people to reach for the stars. And I can't think of a greater high than you could possibly get than by inventing something. — Stephanie Kwolek

Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness. — Jim Rohn

I hope I'm saving lives. There are very few people in their careers that have the opportunity to do something to benefit mankind. — Stephanie Kwolek