#substance

Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal. ↗

— Gilbert Newton Lewis

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As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#contains #divine #earth #feed #find

Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#style #substance #succeed

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#i #musician #remembered #some #substance

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#does #interesting #literature #made #makes

There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their reluctance to hire me for big budget blockbusters, but the thing I would love most would be if they understood people don't have to be Hollywood beautiful to be sexy or interesting. ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#big #big budget #blockbusters #budget #change

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#defect #evil #excess #only #own

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 disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#change #chemical #composition #disposed #fact

I think Chappelle set the bar when he came out with his show. To be as great as him or greater you have to push it a little further - as long as there's substance in terms of the material. ↗

— Aries Spears

#came #further #great #greater #him

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#hope #substance #unseen