Roald Hoffmann Quotes

#1. Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941.

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#2. 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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#3. I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.

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#4. I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.

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