Dmitri Mendeleev quotes

Dmitri Mendeleev was a Russian chemist, best known for creating the Periodic Table of Elements. His systematic arrangement of elements greatly advanced the field of chemistry and helped predict the properties of undiscovered elements. He remains one of the most influential scientists in history. Here are 23 of his quotes:

There is nothing in this world that I fear to say. (Dmitri Mendeleev)

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

Dmitri Mendeleev

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

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

Dmitri Mendeleev

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

Dmitri Mendeleev

In science we must all submit not to what seems to us attractive from one point of view or another, but to what represents an agreement between theory and experiment.

Dmitri Mendeleev

I wish to establish some sort of system not guided by chance but by some sort of definite and exact principle.

Dmitri Mendeleev

I have no need of proof. The laws of nature, unlike the laws of grammar, admit of no exception.

Dmitri Mendeleev

We should still expect to discover many unknown simple bodies; for example, those similar to aluminum and silicon, elements with atomic weights of 65 to 75.

Dmitri Mendeleev

I suppose when my unknown elements are found, more people will pay us attention.

Dmitri Mendeleev

To burn oil!.. You can fuel with money as well. (Dmitri Mendeleev)

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

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

Dmitri Mendeleev

No one nor anything can silence me.

Dmitri Mendeleev

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

Dmitri Mendeleev

I have achieved an inner freedom.

Dmitri Mendeleev

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

Dmitri Mendeleev

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

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

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

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)

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

Dmitri Mendeleev

Doctor, you have science, I have faith.--to his physician, this was possibly a Jules Verne quote.

Dmitri Mendeleev

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Occupation: Russian Scientist
Born: January 27, 1834
Died: January 20, 1907
Quotes count: 23
Wikipedia: Dmitri Mendeleev

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