"Without order, our science is nothing but a miserable collection of facts."

"I was very much interested in spiritualism, but I found no scientific basis for it."

"I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper."

"My table will serve as an instrument for discovering new facts and for correcting old ones."

"The time has evidently come for the development of the internal structure of atoms."