Collections Quote by Gottfried Leibniz

There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of…

— Gottfried Leibniz

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

The only difference between elements and compounds consists in the supposed impossibility of proving the so-called elements to be compounds.

— Wolfgang Ostwald

... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

— Aristotle

During the course of my research, I had had occasion to examine not only simple compounds, salts and oxides, but also a great number…

— Marie Curie

Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.

— Swami Vivekananda

But I must confess I am jealous of the term atom; for though it is very easy to talk of atoms, it is very…

— Michael Faraday

Substance must itself be said of the modes and only of the modes.

— Gilles Deleuze

Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality…

— Johannes Stark

The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes…

— K. Eric Drexler

There is nothing more difficult than simplicity, and therefore, nothing more refined.

— Kathleen Tessaro

The recipe for a human doesn't fill up a shopping list as you may suspect. Just twenty-two elements can describe almost all of the…

— Kyle Hill