"Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation." — Truman Capote

More Fermentation Quotes

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• I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and… — Henry Ward Beecher
• Fermentation and civilization are inseparable. — John Ciardi
• Fermentation equals civilization. — John Ciardi
• My present and most fixed opinion regarding the nature of alcoholic fermentation is this: The chemical act of fermentation is… — Louis Pasteur
• I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and… — Thomas Jefferson
• I will now direct the attention of scientists to a previously unnoticed cause which brings about the metamorphosis and decomposition… — Justus von Liebig
• We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential… — C. D. Darlington
• There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. — Richard P. Feynman
• There is at this present juncture, a certain fermentation of mind, a certain activity of speculation and enterprise which if… — Alexander Hamilton
• Fermentation may have been a better invention than fire. — David Wallace
• Philosophy is a state of fermentation a process without final outcome. — Esa Saarinen
• Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates… — Andreas Libavius

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