I could blame the damned Sumerians for stumbling on the…

[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at first amused…

— Joseph Priestley

Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms…

— Andreas Libavius

“In the Strongs' case, Lidy taught Hiram everything he knew about making shine. A medicine woman of sorts, she often turned to tinctures for…

— Michelle Collins Anderson

“Fermentation is right up there with cooking as one of the most powerful methods to transform food.”

— John Durant

Here's what the Encyclopedia Galactica has to say about alcohol. It says that alcohol is a colourless volatile liquid formed by the fermentation of…

— Douglas Adams

I will now direct the attention of scientists to a previously unnoticed cause which brings about the metamorphosis and decomposition phenomena which are usually…

— Justus von Liebig

Since the most ancient times, all men, and particularly those who endeavored in the practice of medicine, have brought closer together two natural phenomena…

— Louis Pasteur

Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.

— John Ciardi

We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.

— Eduard Buchner

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

— Matthew Arnold

My present and most fixed opinion regarding the nature of alcoholic fermentation is this: The chemical act of fermentation is essentially a phenomenon correlative…

— Louis Pasteur

Philosophy is a state of fermentation a process without final outcome.

— Esa Saarinen

Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.

— Truman Capote

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

Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of…

— William Shenstone