The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.
Dmitri MendeleevThe 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 MendeleevThe edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle in the air-a mere possibility; whilst the material without a plan is but useless matter.
Dmitri Mendeleev