“The periodic table is the universal catalog of everything you can drop on your foot. There are some things, such as light, love, logic, and time, that are not in the periodic table. But you can't drop any of those things on your foot.”

—  Theodore Gray, book The Elements

The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe p. 5

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