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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and inventor. He formulated the Periodic Law, created a farsighted version of the periodic table of elements, and used it to correct the properties of some already discovered elements and also to predict the properties of eight elements yet to be discovered.

✵ 27. January 1834 – 20. January 1907
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Famous Dmitri Mendeleev Quotes

Dmitri Mendeleev quote: “There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.”

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

Dmitri Mendeleev

“I have no need of proof. The laws of nature, unlike the laws of grammar, admit of no exception.”

Dmitri Mendeleev

An Outline of the System of the Elements

“I wish to establish some sort of system not guided by chance but by some sort of definite and exact principle.”

Dmitri Mendeleev

An Outline of the System of the Elements

“In science we must all submit not to what seems to us attractive from one point of view or another, but to what represents an agreement between theory and experiment.”

Dmitri Mendeleev

Faraday Lecture, the Royal Institution, London (1889) as quoted by Leon Gray, The Basics of the Periodic Table (2013)

“We should still expect to discover many unknown simple bodies; for example, those similar to aluminum and silicon, elements with atomic weights of 65 to 75.”

Dmitri Mendeleev

An Outline of the System of the Elements

“I suppose when my unknown elements are found, more people will pay us attention.”

Dmitri Mendeleev

An Outline of the System of the Elements

“To burn oil!.. You can fuel with money as well.”

Dmitri Mendeleev

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