People - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev - Quotations

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The following quotations help to confirm that science and skepticism were important to Dmitri Mendeleyev:

• "The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment."
   
• "There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium."
   
• "We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature."
   
• "There is nothing in this world that I fear to say."