Roald Hoffmann - The same and not the same (1995)

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The overall effect of science is inexorably democratizing, in the deepest sense of the word — by making available to a wider range of people the necessities and comforts that in a previous age were reserved for a privileged elite.

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Chemistry, the molecular way of knowing the natural and unnatural, is a remarkable science, prodigal in the way it has changed our world.

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Even in two "hard natural science" fields as close to each other as chemistry and physics, even there there are concepts in chemistry which are not reducible to physics. Or if they are reduced they lose much that is interesting in them.

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