Quote of the day
Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.
Roald Hoffmann
Born: July 18, 1937 (age 87)
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)