Quote of the day
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future
Roald Hoffmann
Born: July 18, 1937 (age 88)
Bio: Roald Hoffmann is an American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He has also published plays and poetry. He is the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Emeritus, at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York.
Known for:
- The same and not the same (1995)
- Chemistry imagined (1993)
- Gaps and verges (1990)
- Old wine, new flasks (1997)
- Soliton: Poems (2002)