Russian Chemist Quotes

Dmitri Mendeleev

Ilya Prigogine

Vladimir Vernadsky

Alexander Butlerov

Science, which deals with the infinite, is itself without bounds.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The irreversibility [of time] is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos.

Man's intellectual development has extended for a period of at least 5,000 years. However, it has been only during the past three centuries that scientists have realized their real objectives and have learned to use what we designate the scientific method.

Facts not explained by the existing theories are probably the most valuable for science, for their study is most likely to lead to its early advancement.

Alexander Butlerov

Scientists are in fact imaginers and artists; they are not free with their ideas; they can work well and hard only at what their thinking accepts and what their feelings are drawn to. Ideas alternate; impossible and often mad ones appear; they swarm and whirl, fuse and sparkle. Scientists live among these ideas and work for them.

Vladimir Vernadsky