Richard Smalley Early Quotations

Diamond, for all its great beauty, is not nearly as interesting as the hexagonal plane of graphite. It is not nearly as interesting because we live in a three-dimensional space, and in diamond, each atom is surrounded in all three directions in space by a full coordination.

My interest in science had many roots. Some came from my mother as she finished her B.A. degree studies in college while I was in my early teens.