"To conceive, understand, and grasp the whole symmetry of the scientific edifice, including its unfinished portions, is equivalent to tasting that enjoyment only conveyed by the highest forms of beauty…"

"There are no limits to the perfectibility of human knowledge, and it is in this spirit that the periodic system was conceived."

"The periodic table is a work of art, a testament to the elegance and order of the natural world."

"It is the function of the scientist to do 3 things: to observe, to generalize, and to predict."

"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."