Top 39 Mendeleev's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#4. When the elements are arranged in vertical columns according to increasing atomic weight, so that the horizontal lines contain analogous elements again according to increasing atomic weight, an arrangement results from which several general conclusions may be drawn.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#5. I don't go to clubs. I don't know what club mixes are supposed to sound like.
Kenny G
#6. I feel as though I've proved myself these last five years that I can be one of the top players in the league.
Kevin Durant
#7. Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#8. The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#9. There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#10. The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#12. I don't think I have ever met a lady like you, Miss Marianne Daventry, and I would feel very sorry to forget anything about this evening
Julianne Donaldson
#13. According to federal reports filed yesterday, the Obama campaign spent more money than they raised in the month of May. They spent more money than they raised? Well, that's called being a Democrat
Jay Leno
#14. I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#16. Elements which are similar as regards their chemical properties have atomic weights which are either of nearly the same value (eg. Pt, Ir, Os) or which increase regularly (eg. K, Ru, Cs).
Dmitri Mendeleev
#17. You do have an effect on the universe. If you think positive thoughts, if you are happy and progressive, then that energy affects everyone on the whole planet, in subtle ways, perhaps, but it does.
Frederick Lenz
#18. Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#19. Fashion can often be dictated. It's what people think we should do or wear. Style is totally personal.
Liz Goldwyn
#20. It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#21. The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#22. Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#23. If all the elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights, a periodic repetition of properties is obtained. This is expressed by the law of periodicity.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#24. The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#26. There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.
John Calvin
#27. Once you shake hands with the devil, you have to accept they are in control.
Alex Ferguson
#29. Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#30. We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#31. I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and groped without any wind. They do say the trees do actually move, and can surround strangers and hem them.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#32. I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#33. The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle in the air-a mere possibility; whilst the material without a plan is but useless matter.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#34. The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#35. I said I'd be honest, I never said I'd be consistant.
Grace Slick
#36. We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65 and 75.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#37. Every man is where he is by the law of his being; the thoughts which he has built into his character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of his life there is no element of chance, but all is the result of a law which cannot err.
James Allen
#38. It's still a cowl, Frederic grumbled (few things could cause him to summon up his inner courage like improper word usage).
Christopher Healy
#39. 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
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