Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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)