Chemistry Quotes

“STM can be used to pick up and move individual atoms, allowing structures and patterns to be made one atom at a time.”
― Nivaldo J. Tro, Chemistry: A Molecular Approach

“According to Kuhn, science goes through fairly quiet periods that he called normal science. In these periods, scientists make their data fit the reigning theory, or paradigm. Small inconsistencies are swept aside during periods of normal science. However, when too many inconsistencies and anomalies develop, a crisis emerges. The crisis brings about a revolution and a new reigning theory.”
― Nivaldo J. Tro, Chemistry: A Molecular Approach

“Kuhn further contended that theories are held for reasons that are not always logical or unbiased, and that theories are not true models—in the sense of a one-to-one mapping—of the physical world.”
― Nivaldo J. Tro, Chemistry: A Molecular Approach