Periodicity Quotes

• The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.

  Dmitri Mendeléyev

  Elements, Weight, Property

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• Si se ordenan todos los elementos según su peso atómico, se obtiene una repetición periódica de las propiedades. Esto se expresa mediante la ley de la periodicidad.

  Dmitri Mendeléyev

  Ciencia, Orden, Derecho

  Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (2013). "Mendeleev sobre la ley periódica: Selected Writings, 1869 - 1905", p.271, Courier Corporation

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• In nature nothing is at standstill, everything pulsates, appears and disappears. Heart, breath, digestion, sleep and waking - birth and death - everything comes and goes in waves. Rhythm, periodicity, harmonious alternation of extremes is the rule. No use rebelling against the very pattern of life.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Heart, Sleep, Use

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• Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another, intertwining of external and internal factors, and adaptive processes which overcome impediments that the child encounters.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Children, Philosophy, Educational

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• If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical. Periodicity rules over the mental experience of man, according to the path of the orbit of his thoughts. Distances are not gauged, ellipses not measured, velocities not ascertained, times not known. Nevertheless, the recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year.

  Alice Meynell

  Life, Distance, Men

  Alice Meynell (2013). "The Essential Alice Meynell Collection", p.384, eBookIt.com.

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• This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the solar and astronomical periodicities on which there influence was originally based. With the surplus thus created, the priesthood was able to command human labor in huge amounts and to direct this labor from the simple tillage of the peasant peoples to the diversified and specialized activities that constitute civilized living.

  Carroll Quigley

  Simple, Able, Groups

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• The modesty of women, which, in its most primitive form among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is, with that periodicity, an essential condition of courtship.

  Havelock Ellis

  Sex, Animal, Essentials

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “Psychology of Sex: The Biology of Sex—The Sexual Impulse in Youth—Sexual Deviation—The Erotic Symbolisms—Homosexuality—Marriage—The Art of Love”, p.30, Butterworth-Heinemann

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