Neil deGrasse Tyson

The universe is large and old, and the ingredients for life as we know it are everywhere, so there's no reason to think that Earth would be unique in that regard. Whether of not the life became intelligent is a different question, and we'll see if we find that.

American Scientist

I. M. Pei

One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.

American Architect

Phil Knight

Running is a basic ingredient for your health, just as much as eating and sleeping, but going out for a run by yourself and taking a moment to think also creates a certain peace.

American Businessman

Stephen Covey

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

American Educator

Yotam Ottolenghi

I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.

Israeli Chef

Wolfgang Puck

The most important thing for me is to really buy the best ingredient.

Austrian Chef

Barbara Bush

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

American First Lady

Denis Waitley

Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.

American Writer

Gino D'Acampo

We Italians respect food and ingredients more than anyone else.

Italian Chef

Edward Herrmann

I thought cars were essential ingredients of life itself.

American Actor

In cooking, 'ingredient' refers to items combined to prepare dishes.

Recipe Context

Exact amounts of each ingredient are often crucial in recipes.

Quantity Precision

You can sometimes replace ingredients with alternatives if needed.

Substitutions Possible

'Ingredient' also applies to abstract concepts like success.

Abstract Applications

The word can be used metaphorically to mean 'an important part'.

Metaphorical Use

In medicine, 'ingredient' refers to each chemical in a formulation.

Medicinal Context

In cosmetics, 'ingredient' means any substance used in products.

Cosmetic Products

Products list ingredients to inform consumers of contents.

Ingredient Labels

 You just mix up some pollen, sugar and water, and whatever active ingredient you want to put in, and you just give it right to the bees. No chemicals involved, just immune boosters. Humans think about our own health in a prospective way. We exercise, we eat healthy, we take vitamins. Why don't we think about honeybees in that same type of way?

Noah Wilson-Rich: Every...

 that would make you live forever. In these early days, the Chinese hadn't yet figured out how to make the powder explode; it was simply very flammable, and their armies used it to make flaming arrows and even a flamethrower. But once they figured out the right proportions of ingredients to create a blast,

The deadly irony of...

 humanity one out of every two or three people you know is introverted so we're dreaming really big and I want to just give you in the interest of time the quickest look at three of the many big projects on our drawing board okay first transforming office architecture solitude is a crucial ingredient of

Blueprint for a quiet...

 and ate it, their pain disappeared. Little did they know that why they'd found was destined to influence the future course of medicine. What the Sumerians had discovered was a precursor to the medicine known today as aspirin. Aspirin's active ingredient is found commonly in willow trees

How aspirin was...

 that repeatedly reuse and rebuild ingredients crafting as much as possible out of the planet's available resources. Such as that sugar, built using raw sunlight and carbon converted in plant factories to become the energy that powers you and keeps the cycles revolving in your own life.

Nature's smallest...

 One with eight petals is part of the fourfold category, and so on. There's another secret ingredient in these an underlying grid. Invisible, but essential to every pattern, the grid helps determine the scale of the composition before work begins, keeps the pattern accurate,

The complex geometry of...

 or thickeners or humectants which help retain water the gel is also easy usually if you see the word polymer in the ingredients list of a gel that polymer is what makes the gel the gel okay so we're left with isopropyl alcohol amino methyl propanol and

What's in Hand...

 an ingredient that strengthens bones and lets us absorb vital minerals, like calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphate, and zinc. Without it, humans experience serious fatigue and weakened bones that can cause a condition known as rickets.

The science of skin...

 bones, lungs, blood, and heart work together to sustain your life by delivering oxygen to tissues throughout your body. Most of our cells need oxygen because it's one of the key ingredients of aerobic respiration.

Oxygen’s surprisingly...

 you have all of the ingredients that you need, that we know of, to develop life as we know it. I love this picture and it's about as much meaning as you can get out of the