Composition Quote by Jons Jacob Berzelius

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

— Swami Vivekananda

A schism has taken place among the chemists. A particular set of them in France have undertaken to remodel all the terms of the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the very substance…

— Georg Ernst Stahl

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

In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in…

— Wilhelm Ostwald

Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form. The distinction…

— Louis Pasteur

Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.

— Richard Owen

MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.

— Ambrose Bierce

[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories.

— Johannes Kepler

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

— Antoine Lavoisier

“Often we have three terms for the same thing--one Anglo-Saxon, one French, and one clearly absorbed from Latin or Greek. The Anglo-Saxon word is…

— Henry Hitchings

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation'…

— Brian Ferneyhough