Roald Hoffmann Quotes About Chemistry

• Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.

  Roald Hoffmann

  Heart, Knowing, Chemistry

• 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 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

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