Dmitri mendeleev biography quotes

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

#Believe#Inquiry#Tables

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

#Work#Looks#Calm

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

#Elements#Weight#Property

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

#Law#Recognition#Laws Of Nature

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

#Discovery#Example#Would Be

I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place