Write true or false for the statement: It was assumed by Newlands that only $63$ elements existed in nature and no more elements would be discovered in the future.

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(FALSE) The statement is False. John Newlands assumed that only $56$ elements existed in nature and that no more elements would be discovered in the future. The number $63$ is associated with the number of elements known at the time of Mendeleev's Periodic Table.

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