Dimitri Mendeleev 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

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

Do you trust me?
The question is usually asked before an admission that such trust is misplaced. — S.J. Watson

Each of us, I think, adopts a comfortable and familiar era or place in which to plant ourselves; and from then on, that which disagrees with our memories
a new building here, a change in paint there
is forever jarring and anachronistic. — Daniel D. Victor

Let's face it. I'm the romantic equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle. Men date me then disappear , never to be heard from again."

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What if at the last moment, when the banquet table is set and the cymbals clash, there should appear suddenly, and wholly without warning, a silver platter on which even the blind could see that there is nothing more, and nothing less, than two enormous lumps of shit. That, I believe would be more miraculous than anything which man has looked forward to. It would be miraculous because it would be undreamed of. It would be more miraculous than even the wildest dream because anybody could imagine the possibility but nobody ever has, and probably nobody ever again will. — Henry Miller

I like James Franco. I think he's really cute. I remember a while ago there was a rumor going around that he was getting married and all my friends and I were freaking out. Yeah, I think he's cute! — Miranda Cosgrove

In high school, girls started wearing high-waisted pants with their shirts tucked into them. I don't get what that's about. — Dylan O'Brien

In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there. — Franz Grillparzer

Have you slept yet?'
'Sure. I took a power nap on the way over.'
'Didn't you drive there?'
'Yeah. Other drviers kept waking me up. Car horns should be illegal.'
- Charley & Cookie — Darynda Jones

You're my favourite place." He breathed. "Let me lose myself in you."
"I wouldn't want you anywhere else. — Lilly James

I like to think coffee comes from beans; therefore, it's a vegetable. — Jim Gaffigan

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty. — Abbott Lawrence Lowell

This is what men must do. Their true job."
"What's that?"
"Take responsibility for what's theirs and let go the rest."
"Seems the trick, then, is figuring out what you can safely let go. — Lance Weller

He looked so pained that I dreamed of taking his hands and making him dance — Andrea Levy

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. — George Bernard Shaw