I am not me but the living matter fermenting and forming…

I'm not me but living matter fermenting and forming its own shapes in the fruitfulness of every day.

— Pablo Neruda

“Get up, Henry,' he says. 'You're fermenting. Tell him he's fermenting, George.”

— Cath Crowley

“You haven't failed, you're fermenting.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“The story goes that Russian winter clothes, when introduced into a common latrine, start fermenting when in contact with urine and feces and where…

— Florin Grancea

The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

By fermenting tiny single-cell organisms we will be able to synthesise all manner of foodstuffs in the future, everything from pasta to eggs, fish…

— Konnie Huq

There are living systems; there is no'living matter'.

— Jacques Monod

I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.

— Haruki Murakami

Living matter is the most powerful geological force.

— Vladimir Vernadsky

The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single…

— James Lovelock

There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess, of its…

— Jacques Monod

It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed…

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

To my mind, the theory of [evolution] does not stand up at all. If living matter is not, then, caused by the interplay of…

— Henry Lipson

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which…

— Asa Gray

And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction…

— Frederick Sanger