Decomposition Quotes

21 quotes by 20 authors

It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away. — Brigitte Bardot
I will now direct the attention of scientists to a previously unnoticed cause which brings about the metamorphosis and decomposition phenomena which are usually called… — Justus von Liebig
Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous. — Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be built… — Empedocles
But when it has been shown by the researches of Pasteur that the septic property of the atmosphere depended not on the oxygen, or any… — Joseph Lister
Do these fuels result always and necessarily in one way from the decomposition of a pre-existing organic substance? Is it thus with the hydrocarbons so… — Marcellin Berthelot
While there are practical and sometimes moral reasons for the decomposition of the family, it coincides neither with what most people in society say they… — Robert Neelly Bellah
In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from… — Swami Vivekananda
What is called Western Civilization is in an advanced state of decomposition, and another Dark Ages will soon be upon us, if, indeed, it has… — Malcolm Muggeridge
In every combustion there is disengagement of the matter of fire or of light. A body can burn only in pure air [oxygen]. There is… — Antoine Lavoisier
The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be said to have… — Charles Babbage
Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of… — Theodor Adorno
This new force, which was unknown until now, is common to organic and inorganic nature. I do not believe that this is a force entirely… — Jons Jacob Berzelius
The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in… — Joel Salatin
I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. — Antoine Lavoisier
Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust... — Stephen King
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt… — Charles Dickens
A life cycle can be imposed on an object. An object can be very energetic and active, and then it has a dying phase and… — Claes Oldenburg
There were three causes that accounted for the proclamation of martial law in Poland. First it was the progressing economic ruin of the country. Second,… — Wojciech Jaruzelski
We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation. — Eduard Buchner

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