Science Quote by Dmitri Mendeleev

Mendeleev is doing something sneakier than offering a calming proverb about moderation. He is staking a scientific claim: order isn’t imposed by taste or tradition, it is forced by balance. “Everywhere” is the power move. He’s smuggling a universal principle into a world that, in the 19th century, still looked like a cabinet of curiosities - especially in chemistry, where substances could feel like exceptions piled on exceptions. By insisting there “exists” a “medium in things,” he’s arguing that nature has a default setting: systems settle into stable ranges because extremes are mechanically unsustainable.

The phrasing matters. “Medium” doesn’t sound like “average” so much as a stable band, a zone where forces cancel out. “Determined by equilibrium” makes the middle not a moral choice but a consequence, like a scale leveling when you stop pushing it. It’s almost an aesthetic argument for the periodic table’s deeper promise: that properties and behaviors aren’t random; they’re constrained by underlying symmetries and balances. You don’t get to invent chemistry. You discover the terms of its truce.

The subtext is also a quiet rebuke to human drama. We treat categories, identities, even political positions as hard binaries; Mendeleev’s line suggests the world is built to resist that. Not because compromise is virtuous, but because equilibrium is efficient. Stability is the real author here, and it writes in gradients, not slogans.