Gallium Periodic Table 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

We want characters - characters man - something novel - out of the way. We are wearied with everlasting sameness. Come drink! the wine will brighten your wits. — Edgar Allan Poe

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. — D.H. Lawrence

Acting is what I love to do.I understand the differences between the different formats. But I enjoy whether it be film, TV or in the theater. — Carter Jenkins

The aesthetic can have its revenge upon ideology by revealing a power to complicate that is also a power to undermine. — Murray Krieger

It may take months or years for a wish to come true, but it's far more likely to happen when you care so much about a wish that you'll do all you can to make it happen. — Fred Rogers

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal. — E.L. Konigsburg

From the beginning, for instance, Assael "anchored" his pearls to the finest gems in the world-and the prices followed forever after. — Dan Ariely

'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down. — Carolyn See