Quotes from Oliver Lodge

In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.

But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.

Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

among a people hurried and busy and preoccupied, some in the pursuit of riches, some in the pursuit of pleasure, and some, the majority, in the struggle for existence, there arise in every generation, here and there, one or two great souls—men who

who look on the world and the universe they are born in with quite other eyes. To

These last have been the men of science, the great and heaven-born men of science; and they are few. In

Archimedes, one of the greatest men of science there has ever been, and the father of physics.

In the thirteenth century, however, a really great scientific man appeared, who may be said to herald the dawn of modern science in Europe. This man was Roger Bacon. He

we must wait two hundred years for the next name of great magnitude; moreover

The man I spoke of as coming two hundred years later is Leonardo da Vinci. True

About this time the tremendous invention of printing was achieved, and Columbus unwittingly discovered the New World. The

The middle of the next century must be taken as the real dawn of modern science; for the year 1543 marks the publication of the life-work of Copernicus. Nicolas Copernik was his proper name. Copernicus

rushing along its annual course round the sun at the rate of nineteen miles every second.

Jupiter takes 4332 days to make one revolution); then

Copernicus lived from 1473 to 1543, and

Tycho Brahé from 1546 to 1601. Kepler from 1571 to 1630. Galileo from 1564 to 1642. Gilbert from 1540 to 1603. Francis Bacon from 1561 to 1626. Descartes from 1596 to 1650.

We have seen how Copernicus placed the earth in its true position in the solar system, making

e.g. the sky looks the same at midnight on the 1st of October as it does at 10 p.m. on the 1st of November.

Ptolemaic system continued

In June the earth is 184 million miles away from where it was in December: how

unless they are at a practically infinite distance. That is the only answer that can be given. It was the tentative answer given by Copernicus. It is the correct answer. Not only from every position of the earth, but from every planet of the solar system, the same constellations are visible, and the stars have the same aspect. The

The only answer that Copernicus could give to this was that they might be difficult to see without extra powers of sight, but he ventured to predict that the phases would be seen if ever our powers of vision should be enhanced.