Courses Quote by Gottfried Leibniz

And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.

— Gottfried Leibniz

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

— Aristotle

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.

— Lucretius

As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced by her, chemical science can then…

— Otto Wallach

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence…

— Gottfried Leibniz

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's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.

— Michael Parkinson

In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.

— Swami Vivekananda

Chemistry happens naturally, and there's not really a lot you can do intentionally to create it.

— Josephine Langford

Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.

— Geoffrey Chew

Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.

— Hal Borland

Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. I maintain also that substances,…

— Gottfried Leibniz