Quote by Dmitri Mendeleev
"Patience in research is not a virtue—it is a necessity."
More from Dmitri Mendeleev
"The periodic law is the only quantitative law of chemistry which is capable of being generally applied."
"I saw in the dream the table of elements arranged in accordance with their atomic weights, and when I awoke, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper."
"If you wish to become a philosopher, learn to ask pertinent questions."
"The elements of which man is composed are worth about 97 cents."