Dmitri Mendeleev Quotes & Sayings

“No one nor anything can silence me.”

“The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.”

“There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.”

“Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.”

“I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.”

“Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.”

“There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.”

“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.”

“It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.”

“The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.”