Ability Quote by Robertson Davies

"Civilization rests on two things," said Hitzig; "the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to…

— Robertson Davies

Fermentation equals civilization.

— John Ciardi

Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.

— John Ciardi

“But, as I learned from talking to the scientist behind the study cited in that article, the real theory is much more interesting. “Beer”…

— Robert Evans

“William Faulkner is supposed to have said, "Civilization begins with distillation," but I'd push even further -- beyond just distilled spirits to wine, beer,…

— Adam Rogers

“During the first millennium BCE, even the beer-loving Mesopotamians turned their backs on beer, which was dethroned as the most cultured and civilized of…

— Tom Standage

There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation.

— Richard P. Feynman

“Every pre-FTL civilization we know of has alcohol. I mean, imagine you're stuck to a single planet, it takes decades to cross just your…

— Aldous Mercer

“It happens thousands of times a day around the world, maybe millions, yet it is the culmination of human achievement, of human science and…

— Adam Rogers

The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened…

— Pliny the Elder

There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food.

— Pearl S. Buck

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

— Norman Borlaug