"Mendeleev, unlike the squeamish Meyer, had balls enough to predict that new elements would be dug up. Look harder, you chemists and geologists, he seemed to taunt, and youâ€™ll find them."

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Source : "The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements". Book by Sam Kean, July 12, 2010.

Sam Kean

#Balls Quotes #Looks Quotes #Elements Quotes

“I really love live performing!”
“It is reported from the famous worshiper Rabi'ah al-Adawiyya (radiAllahu anha) that she said: "I have never heard the adhaan except that I remember the caller who will announce the Day of Resurrection, and I never see the falling snow except that I imagine the flying pages of the records of peoples deeds (on that day), and I never see swarms of locusts except that I think about the Great Gathering on the Last Day."”
“Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong.”
“Being an artist is supposed to be a scam, not a career.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasnâ€™t planned; it was realism.”
“About Thatcher's death: Let's privatise her funeral. Put it out on competetive tender and accept the cheapest bid. That's what she would have wanted.”
“Friendship doesn't have anything to do with shoring up weakness. It has to do with respect and consideration for those you care about. It has to do with wanting to give something back to those you admire.”

Source : Terry Brooks (2001). “The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Antrax”, p.256, Ballantine Books
“One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.”

Source : Joseph Story (1842). “A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States”, p.264

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