Quotes About Electricity

Electricity was a part of the world from its creation, and therefore my Electra is as old as Daylight or Moonlight, and equally beneficent to mortals and fairies alike.

1940s by neuroanatomist Harold S. Burr from Yale University, who studied and measured electrical fields around living things, specifically salamanders. Burr discovered that salamanders possessed an energy field shaped like an adult salamander, and that this blueprint even existed in an unfertilized egg.13

He lives in kind of a different world from the rest of us. You know? The kind of world where electricity is a lot of invisible spiders. The kind of world where there's organ music that gets louder when he eats refined sugar.

By 4:00 a.m., an electrical engineer had worked his way through the school's computer grid and found the problem. Electricity

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in the rubbish.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.

Then came cheap oil, electricity, and the motorized centrifugal pump. Finally freed from all constraints but nature's (irrigation would last only as long as the finite aquifer held out), the farmers began pumping in the finest California tradition—which is to say, as if tomorrow would never come.

On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence.

La force qui fait le plus de fois le tour de la terre en une seconde, ce n'est pas l'électricité, c'est la douleur.

The Incarnation of Christ raised the energy of everything. And when Hopkins placed his conviction of this into poetry, he tended to mention electricity, lightening, fire, flash, flame. He wrote in his late, great poem, "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and the comfort of the Resurrection": 'In a flash, at a trumpet crash, / I am all at once what Christ is, / since he was what I am and / This jack, joke, poor potsherd, / patch matchwood, immortal diamond, / Is immortal diamond.

The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.

Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out.

Al menos, en la oscuridad se aprende algo. Particularmente se valora la importancia de la luz, la bienaventuranza del sol, la bendición de la electricidad. La televisión, la computadora, el refrigerador, se llaman a silencio, y todos regresamos a un pasado remoto, no importa si con los ojos abiertos o cerrados.

On January 17, 2008, Obama made clear his hostility toward, of all things, electricity generated from coal and coal-powered plants. He told the San Francisco Chronicle, "You know, when I was asked earlier about the issue of coal . . . under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work.

It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you're human popcorn

And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said he would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

Love & electricity are one in the same, my dear. If you do not feel the jolt in your soul every time a kiss is shared, a whisper is spoken, a touch is felt, then you are not really in love at all.

With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.

If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment.