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)

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

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