Dmitri Mendeleev Quote

An individual production is only significant in virtue of that which has preceded and that which is contemporary with it, it resembles a mirror which in reflecting exaggerates the size and clearness of neighbouring objects, and causes a person near it to see reflected most plainly those objects which are on the side to which it is directed.


Translated by George Kamensky, In Thomas Atkinson Lawson


An individual production is only significant in virtue of that which has preceded and that which is contemporary with it, it resembles a mirror which ...

An individual production is only significant in virtue of that which has preceded and that which is contemporary with it, it resembles a mirror which ...

An individual production is only significant in virtue of that which has preceded and that which is contemporary with it, it resembles a mirror which ...

An individual production is only significant in virtue of that which has preceded and that which is contemporary with it, it resembles a mirror which ...