Boisbaudran Quotes & Sayings

For his part, Mendeleev scanned Lecoq de Boisbaudran's data on gallium and told the experimentalist, with no justification, that he must have measured something wrong, because the density and weight of gallium differed from Mendeleev's predictions. This betrays a flabbergasting amount of gall, but as science philosopher-historian Eric Scerri put it, Mendeleev always "was willing to bend nature to fit his grand philosophical scheme." The only difference between Mendeleev and crackpottery is that Mendeleev was right: Lecoq de Boisbaudran soon retracted his data and published results that corroborated Mendeleev's predictions. — Sam Kean

Eighteen months after Netscape was created, and before it had made a dime, Netscape sold shares in itself to the public. On the first day of trading the price of those shares rose from $12 apiece to $48. Three months later it was at $140. It was one of the most successful share offerings in the history of the U.S. stock markets, and possibly the most famous. — Michael Lewis

I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me. — Rufus Wainwright

You can achieve enlightenment by simply spending time contemplating nature: the formation of clouds, the beauty of the forest, and the lifecycle of the beings that dwell within. — Loren Mayshark

But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a kind of self-destructive shock one goes and does something really second-rate. Almost as if to prove it ... — Alison Lurie

I don't think I can answer questions about the trust fund. — Louise Woodward

I hope the day will never come when the church abandons the "class meeting" and the prayer service ... The old-fashioned "testimony" meeting should be revived, for through this medium we can share with others our faith and triumphs as well as our needs and mistakes. — Billy Graham

And that's what trust is. We don't just trust people to obey the rules, we also trust that they know when to break them. — Simon Sinek

I don't know what to do,' she finished. 'I feel like I'm the one who has to keep everyone together. — Sara Shepard

Which was first, Matter or Force? If we think on this question, we shall find that we are unable to conceive of matter without force, or force without matter. When God created the elements of which the earth is composed, He created certain wondrous forces, which are set free and become evident when matter acts on matter. — William Crookes

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income. — Logan Pearsall Smith

There is no promise in the world that is okay to break. — Choi Woo-shik

Sometimes when you are the closest to your breakthrough the pressure is the greatest. You have come too far to give up now! — Joyce Meyer

Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to play. — J. Paul Getty