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

January 1, 1970

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Dmitri Mendeleev, Lecture to the Russian Chemical Society as quoted in "Peering Into the Unseen—What Is Revealed?" in Awake! magazine (22 August 2000).