Dmitri Mendeleev — "There are no limits to the perfectibility of human knowledge, and it is in this …"
There are no limits to the perfectibility of human knowledge, and it is in this spirit that the periodic system was conceived.
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Reflecting on the nature of scientific progress
Date: Undated, from his later reflections
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