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 贝克兰

我试着做一些非常硬的东西,但后来我想我应该做一些非常软的东西,可以塑造成不同的形状。这就是我如何想出第一个塑料。我叫它胶木。

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I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.

我告诉她我想要一个整形外科医生为我缝合,我想让她冷冻我的卵巢,这样我就可以收获卵子,通过代孕生下一个亲生孩子。

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

每个人都必须依靠自己来教导自己生命的意义。它不是被发现的东西,而是被塑造的东西。

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

我发现我可以用颜色和形状来表达我无法用其他方式表达的东西——那些我无法用语言表达的东西。

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

随着动脉变硬,心脏变软。

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.

软心肠的人往往出生于软心肠的国家。

I paint with shapes.

我用形状画画。