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Quotes About Energy

Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion.
~ Alessandro Volta
I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large and I think rich.
~ Michael Faraday
The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.
~ Isaac Newton
No scientific subject has ever aroused quite the same mixture of hopes and fears [as atomic energy].
~ Edward Victor Appleton
What quantum physics teaches us is that everything we thought was physical is not physical.
~ Bruce H. Lipton
Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.
~ Ludwig Boltzmann
The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.
~ Ernest Rutherford
Magick, in it's own way, is a science of psychology because it uses the power of the mind to bring forth change in one's life.
~ Silver RavenWolf
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Universe consists of frozen light.
~ David Bohm
Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.
~ Isaac Newton
They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
~ Billie Holiday
Mysterious affair, electricity.
~ Samuel Beckett
When God said "Let there be light" he surely must have meant perfectly coherent light.
~ Charles Hard Townes
It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.
~ Steven Adler
We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
~ Carl Sagan
For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.
~ Richard P. Feynman
The law of the Conservation of Energy is already known — viz., that the sum of all the energies of the universe, actual and potential, is unchangeable.
~ William John Macquorn Rankine
We need no science of formulae, but a science of forms.
~ Viktor Schauberger
One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.
~ Lee Smolin
The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
~ William Beveridge
The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable of teaching him also the uses of wealth.
~ Frederick Soddy
The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.
~ Isaac Asimov
May it not be that the brighter stars are like our Sun, the upholding and energizing centers of systems of living beings?
~ William Huggins