Roald Hoffmann Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.”
-- Roald Hoffmann

#Heart #Knowing #Chemistry
“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 have taught first-year general chemistry.”
-- Roald Hoffmann

#Teacher #Years #Proud
“From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a starâ€¦is boringâ€”there are no molecules there.”
-- Roald Hoffmann

#Stars #Views #Molecules
“I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.”
-- Roald Hoffmann

#Dark #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 my work on organic molecules.”
-- Roald Hoffmann

#One Day #Rotation #Molecules
“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 of the microscopic world; how simple portrayals of the logic of substitution and combination were reified; brings to our attention the imaginative, neglected work of Williamson and Kopp; and takes a critical look at Kekule's daydream. And it beautifully delineates the essential place the imagination has in science. A rewarding, lively picture of chemistry in formation.”
-- Roald Hoffmann

#Simple #Reality #Imagination
“I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.”
-- Roald Hoffmann

#Language
“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 not as different from molecules as they think.”
-- Roald Hoffmann

#Men #Thinking #Different

Top 9 Quotes By Roald Hoffmann A Z Quotes

Top 5 Roald Hoffmann Quotes 2021 Update Quotefancy

You may also like: