Quotes About Dmitri Mendeleev

#1. 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

#2. The enemy is not the person standing before you, sword in hand. It is the person standing next to you with a dagger concealed behind his back.

Paulo Coelho

#3. 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

#4. If I wasn't modelling, I'd probably be an intern somewhere, working for someone who interned the year before me.

Edie Campbell

#5. Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

Dmitri Mendeleev

#6. You don't get paid a whole lot for theatre, but you know, I feel more like, 'Where could I buy this experience, and how much would it cost? Who else would give me this kind of focus and put me in a room with this kind of talent?'

Dennis Christopher

#7. 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

#8. No one nor anything can silence me.

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#9. 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.

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#10. For me, a lovely day is any day I wake up.

Bernie Siegel

#11. No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.

Dmitri Mendeleev

#12. 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.

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#13. There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.

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#14. 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.

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#15. Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.

Dmitri Mendeleev

#16. Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.

Josh Billings

#17. Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.

Dmitri Mendeleev

#18. 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.

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#19. I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him.

Norman Rockwell

#20. 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.

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#21. 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.

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#22. I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.

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#23. The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.

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#24. Nature is kind to him who goes on foot, and makes him aware of beauties and delights never discovered to the traveller on wheels.

Walter White

#25. 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

#26. Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.

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#27. I have achieved an inner freedom.

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#28. There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.

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#29. The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.

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#30. 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

#31. The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.

Sallust