Famous quotes containing the words vegetable and/or matter:
“It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say “this we know.””
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)