At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
“Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement.”
“They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.”