Chemical Common Sense
Miroslav Holub, 4 July 1996
The Same and Not the Same
by Roald Hoffmann.
Columbia, 294 pp., $34.95, September 1995,0 231 10138 4 Show More
by Roald Hoffmann.
Columbia, 294 pp., $34.95, September 1995,
“... cave paintings, and, in the chapter ‘The Salieri Syndrome’, T.S. Eliot’s lines next to Karl Popper. I don’t remember any other professional scientist who is so at home in ‘the first culture’. In Hoffmann, the science/poet combination brings with it, above all, an aptitude for metaphoric rendering and representation (the title of the book ... ”