“ Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why are there so many frauds and so much nonsens… Dmitri Mendeleev
“ I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom. Dmitri Mendeleev
“ It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - so… Dmitri Mendeleev
