Sam Kean Quotes
Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.
If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants.
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 you’ll find them.
Germans at the time believed, a little oddly, that dyes killed germs by turning the germs’ vital organs the wrong color.