It takes wisdom to know when you've had enough, strength to make the decision and determination to see it through.
For his part, Mendeleev scanned Lecoq de Boisbaudran__ data on gallium and told the experimentalist, with no justification, that he must have measured something wrong, because the density and weight of gallium differed from Mendeleev__ predictions. This betrays a flabbergasting amount of gall, but as science philosopher-historian Eric Scerri put it, Mendeleev always __as willing to bend nature to fit his grand philosophical scheme._ The only difference between Mendeleev and crackpottery is that Mendeleev was right: Lecoq de Boisbaudran soon retracted his data and published results that corroborated Mendeleev__ predictions.
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For his part, Mendeleev scanned Lecoq de Boisbaudran__ data on gallium and told the experimentalist, with no justification, that he must have measured something wrong, because the density and weight of gallium differed from Mendeleev__ predictions. This betrays a flabbergasting amount of gall, but as science philosopher-historian Eric Scerri put it, Mendeleev always __as willing to bend nature to fit his grand philosophical scheme._ The only difference between Mendeleev and crackpottery is that Mendeleev was right: Lecoq de Boisbaudran soon retracted his data and published results that corroborated Mendeleev__ predictions.
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