#substances

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#also #any #bare #being #cannot

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet. ↗

— Ray Manzarek

#creative #creator #exist #history #impulse

It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers. ↗

— John Walters

#become #borders #creating #dangerous #difficult

The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms. ↗

— Walther Bothe

#consisted #date #expanded #extensive #four

Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances. ↗

— Robert Crumb

#courage #cowardly #desperation #dull #half

The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances. ↗

— Paul Harris

#been #consequence #frontier #indiscriminate #lawlessness

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. ↗

— Carl Jung

#both #chemical #contact #like #meeting

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#about #biological #come #computer #computers

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#always #explores #sense #smell #substances

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#basketball #football #olympic #problems #sports