Containment Quote by Robert M. Pirsig

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

— Swami Vivekananda

Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand.

— James Elkins

I do not deny the existence of material substance merely because I have no notion of it, but because the notion of it is…

— George Berkeley

The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was…

— 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

Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another.

— Rudolf Hiferding

Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values.

— Robert M. Pirsig

Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

— Dee Hock

We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.

— Marvin Minsky

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

Chemistry is one of those things: it's hard to nail down what it is or how you get it.

— Noah Centineo

The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself…

— Johannes Stark