Roald Hoffmann Quotes
- I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966…
- From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star…is boring—there are no molecules there.
- I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.
- One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of…
- Alan Rocke's Image and Reality does so many things vividly and convincingly: it shows how visual images led chemistry step by step to the reality…
- Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.
- I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.
- Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction. ... Men (and women) are…
- Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941.