Roald Hoffmann famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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
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

#Sex #Differences #Males

Could man be drunk for ever Â Â Â With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning Â Â Â And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober Â Â Â And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Â Â Â Their hands upon their hearts.
But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.
One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.
Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.
First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing.
Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.
The shuttle is the worst $20 you'll ever save. It adds 90 minutes to whatever a Town Car or cab would have been. You have the unenviable choice between being dropped off last or being dropped off first and having a bunch of losers who can't afford cab fare and have no friends or loved ones with cars knowing exactly where you live.
The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.
When you have chemistry with a potential hire, they will most likely become a great employee.

Roald Hoffmann famous quotes

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