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

— Dmitri Mendeleev

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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.

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

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

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

Doctor, you have science, I have faith.--to his physician, this was possibly a Jules Verne quote.

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