Substance Quotes

936 Substance quotes by 721 unique authors

Did you know that Jacques Benveniste, one of the world's leading homeopathic 'scientists', now claims that you can email homeopathic remedies? Yeah, see, what you… — Nick Hornby
Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal: — Frederick Lenz
That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances. — Laozi
Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it… — Andreas Libavius
Why should we try for space travel? It cannot be a substance of any kind that can be expected to pay. It can only be… — Willy Ley
The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary. — Aristotle
Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile .… — James Turrell
Thus the radio elements formed strange and cruel families in which each member was created by spontaneous transformation of the mother substance: radium was a… — Eve Curie
The gentlest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world. That which has no substance enters where there is no space. This… — Laozi
Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess. The truth is,… — Erich Fromm
And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes [in animal and vegetal substances]; matter assumes new… — Humphry Davy
If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified… — Benjamin Franklin
The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet, and-from time immemorial- the woman.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to… — Polybius
... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them… — Hermann Weyl
Under this law (Controlled Substances Act) a bureaucrat-usually not elected-decides whether or not a substance is dangerous and how dangerous that substance is. There's no… — Peter McWilliams
Suppose that the US really is trying to get rid of drugs in Colombia. Does Colombia then have the right to fumigate tobacco farms in… — Noam Chomsky
The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis,… — Frederic Bastiat
Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful… — Dan Simmons
Carbon dioxide is natural, it is not harmful, it is a part of Earth's lifecycle. And yet we're being told that we have to reduce… — Michele Bachmann
By 'God', I understand, a substance which is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent, supremely powerful, and which created both myself and everything else [...] that exists.… — Rene Descartes
These substances function as unspecific amplifiers that increase the energetic niveau in the psyche and make the deep unconscious dynamics available for conscious processing. This… — Stanislav Grof
At long last, we may be returning to the original two-sided sense of the word virus, which originally signified either a life-giving substance or a… — Carl Zimmer
Almost all people suffer some form of intense inner pain at some times in their lives. The suffering might be depression, anxiety, substance abuse, or… — Steven C. Hayes
The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and… — Albert Claude

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