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.
Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry. - Roald Hoffmann
Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.
- Roald Hoffmann
A few atoms added here, subtracted there, is all it takes to make the difference between male and female sex characteristics, between a harmless mole… - Roald Hoffmann
A few atoms added here, subtracted there, is all it takes to make the difference between male and female sex characteristics, between a harmless mole…
Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction. ..… - Roald Hoffmann
Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction. ..…
I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe. - Roald Hoffmann
I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.
From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star…is boring—there are no molecules there. - Roald Hoffmann
From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star…is boring—there are no molecules there.
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 taug… - Roald Hoffmann
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 taug…
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 m… - Roald Hoffmann
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 m…
I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly. - Roald Hoffmann
I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.
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 … - Roald Hoffmann
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 …
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