Miscellaneous research papers:

• L. R. Pratt, G. G. Hoffman, and R. A. Harris, J. Chem. Phys. 88, 1818 (1988): ``Statistical theory of electron densities.''
• M. A. Wilson, A. Pohorille, and L. R. Pratt, J. Chem. Phys. 88, 3281(1988): ``Surface potential of the water liquid-vapor interface.''
• M. A. Wilson, A. Pohorille, and L. R. Pratt, J. Chem. Phys. 90, 5211(1989): ``Comment on `Study on the liquid-vapor interface of water...'.'' See also B. Yang, D. E. Sullivan, B. Tjipto-Margo, and C. G. Gray, J. Phys. Condens. Matter 3, F109(1991): ``Molecular orientational structure of the water liquid/vapour interface.''
• L. R. Pratt, G. G. Hoffman, and R. A. Harris, J. Chem. Phys. 92, 6687 (1990): ``Ground state densities from electron propagators: optimized Thomas-Fermi approximation for short wavelength modes.''
• G. G. Hoffman and L. R. Pratt, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Quantum Simulation of Condensed Matter Phenomena, edited by J. D. Doll and J. E. Gubernatis (World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Teaneck NJ, 1990), pages 105-115: ``Optimized Thomas-Fermi potential for discrete propagator electron density functional calculations.''
• G. G. Hoffman and L. R. Pratt, Proc. Roy. Soc. A 435, 245(1991). ``Statistical theories of electron densities: multiple scattering perturbation theory.''
• L. R. Pratt, J. Phys. Chem. 96, 25(1991): ``Contact potentials of solution interfaces: Phase equilibrium and interfacial electric fields.''
• G. G. Hoffman, R. A. Harris, and L. R. Pratt, Can. J. Chem. 70, 478(1992): ``Statistical theory of electron densities at nonzero temperatures.''
• G. G. Hoffman and L. R. Pratt, Molec. Phys. 82, 245(1994): `` Comparison of electron density functional models .''

Curious Quotes:
• "Theory is the most practical thing conceivable, the quintessence of practice, as it were, since the precision of its conclusions cannot be reached by any routine of estimating or trial and error." L. Boltzmann (16 July 1890)
• "I have tried to avoid long numerical computations,thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations." David Hilbert, Report on Number Theory, 1897.
• "Anyone who wants to analyze the properties of matter in a real problem might want to start by writing down the fundamental equations and then try to solve them mathematically. Although there are people who try to use such an approach, these people are the failures in this field ..." R. P. Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat (Addison-Wesley, Reading, 1963), Chapter 39 "The Kinetic Theory of Gases," p. 39-2.
• "For scientists, history is the not the field upon which they wrestle for truth, but principally their field of celebration and self-congratulation." P. Forman, Science 220, 824 (1983).
• "...it is my experience that whenever a generally decent fellow is asked to act as an anonymous referee, he is apt to acquire hateful qualities: presumptuousness, quarrelsomeness, and bossiness." Jerzy Neyman
• "Good mathematicians see analogies between theorems or theories, the best ones seen analogies between analogies." Stefan Banach
• "We agree much more than you think." Niels Bohr
• "... a good theory is like a good joke: It is short and the last line is quite unexpected." H. L. Friedman
• "A hypothesis or theory is clear, decisive, and positive, but it is believed by no one but the man who created it. Experimental findings, on the other hand, are messy, inexact things, which are believed by everyone except the man who did that work." Harlow Shapley (1885-1972)
• "I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighted like sugar and butter, not even in Cambridge, where they are so adept at putting people into classes and fixing caps on their heads and letters after their names. " Virginia Woolf
• "There are very few things which we know; which are not capable of being reduc'd to a Mathematical Reasoning; and when they cannot, it's a sign our Knowlegdge of them is very small and confus'd." John Arbuthnot
• "When you can measure what your are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind." Lord Kelvin
• "Science without management is worse than management without science." N. G. van Kampen
• "The ever increasing bureaucracy composed of managers who require more and more detail, and guaranteed schedules, will in the not too distant future completely eradicate our nation's world position in research and technology." Harold Agnew
• "Things are more like they are now than they ever have been." President Gerald Ford