Success comes in an emerging set of abstract concepts that…

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this…

— Paul Dirac

I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Civilization begins with distillation

— William Faulkner

History: A distillation of rumor.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Once he left the Haywood out for her with a page number on a scrap of paper, and she opened the book to recipes…

— Allegra Goodman

Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action…

— Alexander von Humboldt

When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes,…

— Jonathan Swift

With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation, the nurturing…

— Linda Gregerson

I wrote poetry in middle school and high school and even through college. It was bad. I just don't think I'm very good at…

— Jesmyn Ward

This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without…

— Benjamin Haydon

History is the distillation of rumour.

— Thomas Carlyle

To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

— Don DeLillo

Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in…

— Diane Ackerman

And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water,…

— William McDonough

You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10…

— J Tillman