Roald Hoffmann quotes
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“Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.”
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“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.”
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“From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star…is boring—there are no molecules there.”
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“I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.”
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“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.”
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“A few atoms added here, subtracted there, is all it takes to make the difference between male and female sex characteristics, between a harmless molecule and a deadly addictive one.”
-- Roald Hoffmann
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“Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.”
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“First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing.”
Source : A. M. Jenkins (2009). “Repossessed”, p.22, Harper Collins
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Source : "In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks: And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-aged White Guy". Book by Adam Carolla, edition.cnn.com. 2010.
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“When you have chemistry with a potential hire, they will most likely become a great employee.”
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