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Mendeleev, unlike the squeamish Meyer, had balls enough to predict that new elements would be dug up. Look harder, you chemists and geologists, he seemed to taunt, and you’ll find them.

"The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements". Book by Sam Kean, July 12, 2010.

He sliced the ball when he had it on a plate.

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers.

"Darwin as the Pinball Wizard: Talking Probability with Robert Marks". Interview with Robert Crowther of the pro-intelligent design Discovery Institute, March 3, 2010.

Find out where the ball is, get there; hit it.

Explaining his tactics as a batsman. Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Hey! Sorry, lady, but nobody's staking anybody at this party! I hung a disco ball for this.

Rachel Caine (2011). “Last Breath: The Morganville Vampires”, p.117, Penguin