Charles Coulson Quote

One is almost tempted to say...at last I can almost see a bond. But that will never be, for a bond does not really exist at all: it is a most convenient fiction which, as we have seen, is convenient both to experimental and theoretical chemists.


'What is a Chemical Bond?', Coulson Papers, 25, Bodleian Library, Oxford


One is almost tempted to say...at last I can almost see a bond. But that will never be, for a bond does not really exist at all: it is a most...

One is almost tempted to say...at last I can almost see a bond. But that will never be, for a bond does not really exist at all: it is a most...

One is almost tempted to say...at last I can almost see a bond. But that will never be, for a bond does not really exist at all: it is a most...

One is almost tempted to say...at last I can almost see a bond. But that will never be, for a bond does not really exist at all: it is a most...