Acid Quote by Anonymous

Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up…

— Anonymous

We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable…

— Anonymous

“It refers to the concentration of hydrogen ions. The fewer the hydrogen ions, the greater the pH level; the greater the pH level, the…

— Om Swami

“A demonstrative and convincing proof that an acid does consist of pointed parts is, that not only all acid salts do Crystallize into edges,…

— Nicolas Lemery

Chemists in earlier centuries were quite interested in the nature of acids. They had no interest in analysing their concept of acid. After all,…

— Hilary Kornblith

“Those distinct substances, which concretes generally either afford, or are made up of, may, without very much inconvenience, be called the elements or principles…

— Robert Boyle

What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined,…

— Henri Poincare

Substance is a subspecies of value. When you reverse the containment process and define substance in terms of value the mystery disappears: substance is…

— Robert M. Pirsig

A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

— Edmund Burke

No one would suggest that we can adequately investigate what makes something an acid, or what makes something aluminum, by bringing our pretheoretical intuitions…

— Hilary Kornblith

Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional…

— Victor Grignard

What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?

— Ludwig Wittgenstein