Roald Hoffmann Quotes

#1. Sporting goods sales have suffered because Americans have become too sedentary.

Mike May

#2. Would it be better to have a president who cries easily? Well, that depends on what he cried about. I would not like the thought of a president who could not cry. That would be worse than one who cried over the right things. Which, in this case, would be the things I would cry over.

Walter Cronkite

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

Roald Hoffmann

#4. From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star ... is boring - there are no molecules there.

Roald Hoffmann

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

Roald Hoffmann

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

Roald Hoffmann

#7. Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

Geoffrey Fisher

#8. PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.

Ambrose Bierce

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Greatness rarely comes easy.

James Boag

#13. I don't feel like I've got all that much too important to say on the kind of big national issues.

George W. Bush

#14. I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#15. I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.

James Van Der Beek

#16. I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

Yael Naim

#17. Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons.

Kim Hyesoon

#18. Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.

Roald Hoffmann

#19. As soon as I would say I'm from Boston, people would just say, 'Naaaah!'

Clinton Sparks