We are perhaps not far removed from the time when we shall be able
to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation.
Joseph Luis Gay-Lussac, Memoires de la Societe d'Arcueil, 2, 207 (1808)
We can calculate everything.
Enrico Clementi
If you want to be the leader, compute !
Only a die-hard would still proclaim, 'Chemistry is an experimental science',
without qualifications.
Paul von R. Schleyer
Every attempt to employ mathematical models in the study
of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational
and contrary to the spirit of chemistry. If mathematical analysis
should ever hold a prominent place in chemistry, an abberation which
is happily almost impossible, it would occasion a rapid and widespread
degeneration of that science.
A. Comte: Philosophie Positive, 1830
We are perhaps not far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit
the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation.
Joseph Luis Gay-Lussac
Memoires de la Societe d'Arcueil, 2, 207 (1808)
Theoria sine praxis quam roto sine axis.
What have you guys calculated insofar?
Academician Branko Stanovnik, ca. 1989