Mendeleev Periodic Table Quotes

#1. Stay small and control it yourself.

Bruce Oldfield

#2. Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

Elbert Hubbard

#3. I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.

Rupert Sheldrake

#4. Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of being well-preserved, but to skid sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, still screaming, 'Whoo what a ride!

Theresa Hollis

#5. For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.

David Hume

#6. 1TH4.9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

Anonymous

#7. storytelling is not just a way to remember what happened; it's a way to understand what happened.

Eric Greitens

#8. Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic Table, which just during those weeks we were learning to unravel, was poetry ...

Primo Levi

#9. Mendeleev, unlike the squeamish Meyer, had balls enough to predict that new elements would be dug up. Look harder, you chemists and geologists, he seemed to taunt, and you'll find them.

Sam Kean

#10. Alan Moore is a peculiarly unsung triumph of British culture, and Northampton, where he was born in 1953, the son of brewery worker Ernest and printer Sylvia, is where you must go to find him.

Susanna Clarke

#11. We will make every effort with utmost sincerity to achieve a peaceful reunification of the country.

Hu Jintao

#12. Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#13. I'm very aware of what you're talking about as I was involved with the radio in Africa in the same period as I was doing Concrete - I was doing both at the same time.

Pierre Schaeffer

#14. There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.

Goldwin Smith

#15. My mother and I were part of a deal in the mid-'60s between Romania and Israel. Israel bought freedom for Romanian Jews for $2,000 a head. Ceausescu made a bundle in hard currency. He also 'sold' ethnic Germans to West Germany. Instead of going to Israel, my mother and I came to the United States.

Andrei Codrescu

#16. Well, what we know
Is not what they tell us
We're not ignorant, I mean it,
And they just cannot touch us
Through the powers of the Most-High
We keep on surfacin'
Thru the powers of the Most-High
We keep on survivin'.

Bob Marley

#17. Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.

Paul Celan