Quotes about electricity

Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventure of the Dying Detective

I am somewhat exhausted I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?

Beth Revis - The Body Electric

Mom used to say that the thoughts in our heads were nothing more than electrical impulses. I remember Dad and her talking about this over dinner. It frustrated Dad that the human brain can fire electrical sparks and think, but that the electricity he’d pump into an android brain would never give it independent thought. The body isn’t that different from a machine. Humans and androids both run on electricity.That lightning spark of energy I saw in the reverie.That was my mother’s last thought, an

Ayn Rand - Anthem

For this wire is as a part of our body, as a vein torn from us, glowing with our blood. Are we proud of this thread of metal, or of our hands which made it, or is there a line to divide these two?

Matt Webb -

Connecting products to the Web will be the 21st century electrification.

Chuck Palahniuk - Damned

My mom would spy by satellite, turning down the air conditioning, colder and colder, with a tapping keystroke via her wireless connection, chilling that house, that one room, meat locker cold, ski-slope cold, spending a king's ransom on Freon and electric power, trying to make some doomed ten bucks' worth of pretty pink flowers last one more day.

Bram Stoker -

There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards.

Zeena Schreck -

Electricity for example was considered a very Satanic thing when it was first discovered and utilized.

Steven Magee - Electrical Forensics

Willfully polluting the ground with AC electricity is just another aspect of how the electrical utility companies will be remembered by the next generation.

Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin

I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City.

George Carlin -

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

Samuel Morse -

If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.

Spike Milligan -

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.

Kerry Packer -

I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.

Earl Wilson -

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

Earl Warren -

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

Erik Brynjolfsson -

Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.

James Buchan -

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.

Sanober Khan -

violent storms. and beautiful smiles. both have electricity. both are equally destructive in nature.

Jodi Lynn Anderson - Midnight at the Electric

So many lights you’d think we were living in a constellation

Steven Magee - Health Forensics

I call supplementing with electrolytes and metals: The Electrical Chemistry of the Human

Duncan Laurie - The Secret Art: A Brief History of Radionic Technology for the Creative Individual

Radionics was conceived as a diagnostic and treatment technology at a time when modern electronic theory and biomedicine had not become the dominant sciences they are today. Early radionic devices incorporated the new discoveries of radio and electronics into their design. During that period, the functional assumptions of radionic technology did not seem as implausible as it does today. However, it wasn't long before radionics became outmoded and completely non-scientific. As Mizrach has noted,

Steven Magee -

Faraday has the Cage, Tesla has the Coil and Magee has the Sandwich!

Pieter van Musschenbroek -

I've found out so much about electricity that I've reached the point where I understand nothing and can explain no

Steven Magee -

Electricity should not be banned, it just needs much better government regulation and understanding by the medical profession of the full range of toxicity that it presents to the human.

Holly A. Smith - Fire of the Five Hearts: A Memoir of Treating Incest

I am inundated with feeling. I feel like a pinball machine on tilt. All the buzzers are ringing, lights are flashing, and I am about to fry my circuits. Nothing is coming in,and nothing is going out. I feel electrified. The wires ignited, sparked, and fizzled. I want it all to slow down. I go right to the water to douse my flame. I immerse myself in the hot water. I want to wash the smells off my body. I can smell Isabella's hair, her breath, and her child vaginal scent. My hair smells of smoke,

Steven Magee -

The USA government states that the New Mexico Trinity nuclear bomb site is still highly radioactive and 'harmless'. It is interesting to note in the era of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) that it is USA government policy that radio frequency (RF) and electricity are also 'harmless'.

Luther Burbank -

Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth.

Travis J. Dahnke - Write like no one is reading

I knew a kid who stuck a knife in the toaster on a few occasions. He learned it hurt. He grew up to be a great electrician.

Prentice Mulford - Thoughts Are Things

Why, human thought is a real element, a real force, darting out like electricity from every man's or woman's mind, injuring or relieving, killing or curing, building fortunes or tearing them down, working for good or ill, every moment, night or day, asleep or awake, carving, moulding and shaping people's faces and making them ugly or agreeable.

Munia Khan -

Love is like electricity sometimes; it may shock you anytime, yet you cannot live without it.

Steven Magee -

Electrical earth (ground) cables are all energized with radio frequencies (RF). Generally the further away from the ground rod you go, the more RF that you will find.

Jazz Feylynn - Colorado State of Mind

No electricity, fridge, TV or game console. I guess changing from human was enough fun and games for werewolves.

Margaret Atwood - Bluebeard's Egg

The house, and all the objects in it, crackled with static electricity; undertows washed through it, the air was heavy with things that were known but not spoken. Like a hollow log, a drum, a church, it was amplified, so that conversations whispered in it sixty years ago can be half-heard today.

Steven Magee -

I have been through the OSHA system twice and I can confirm that I did not have the right to a safe workplace or whistle-blower protection on either occasion.

Steven Magee -

Harmonics are the cancer of the electrical system.

Ana Claudia Antunes - The Tao of Physical and Spiritual

Don't confound static electricity with ecstatic eccentricity. One will leave your hair up, the other will live up in the air!

J.M. Richards - Dark Streak of Lightning

As we were about to cross the road, Davin suddenly grabbed my wrist and held me back a moment; a car peeled out of the driveway and roared past us. “Geez,” I gasped, and then, glancing at him curiously, I added, “Thanks.” He didn’t say anything, but slowly released my wrist. Before he completely withdrew, I took his hand and interlaced my fingers through his. He looked at me, his lips parted in surprise, but then he smiled shyly and gave my hand a squeeze as we kept walking. It gave me a feeling

Villiers de L'Isle-Adam - Tomorrow's Eve

Brunettes are full of electricity.

Munia Khan -

Nature is the guardian of Africa. While the sun lights the African sky in day time, the moon begs the world to help her lighting Africa in the night

Tim Westover - Auraria

One by one, the electric lights ringing the lawn were ignited. Each one, as it burst into brilliance, erased a constellation from the evening sky.

Steven Magee -

Very few people that have installed solar photovoltaics (PV) on their home have realized that by spending an additional five thousand dollars that they can completely disconnect from the electrical utility.

Steven Magee -

With the development of utility electricity for the masses in the 1900's, very few people realize that a new era of sickness and disease was unleashed that are collectively called radiation sickness.

Rebecca McNutt - Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series

…I love you,” he said to her, although at that point he was certain she could no longer comprehend the words. “I’d trade places with you in an instant, Mandy Valems… you never deserved this… why would anyone do something so terrible!?” A cold chill froze his heart when he saw her empty eyes again.The fluorescent lights in the dim room sparked to life all of a sudden, brightness so sharp that it startled him. In a flash, sharp and sudden, quicker than a lightning strike, the bulbs flickered and e

Ana Claudia Antunes - ACross Tic

In Science don't confound Normal static electricity To ecstatic eccentricity. Here is what I found: Electric charges As they rise up your hair In contrast with a discharge, Rarity leaves you up in the air!

Jeane Manning - Breakthrough Power: How Quantum-Leap New Energy Inventions Can Transform Our World

Prototypes of inventions that use novel combinations of resonance, magnetism, states of matter, certain geometries or inward swirling motion to unlock the secrets of universal energy have already been built. They provide proof of new or rediscovered principles. In many variations of these inventions, a small input triggers a disproportionately large output of useable power.""These energy converters don't violate any laws of physics if they simply tap into a previously unrecognized source of powe

Jeane Manning - Breakthrough Power: How Quantum-Leap New Energy Inventions Can Transform Our World

Many conscientious environmentalists are repelled by the word "abundance," automatically associating it with irresponsible consumerism and plundering of Earth's resources. In the context of grassroots frustration, insensitive enthusing about the potential for energy abundance usually elicits an annoyed retort. "We have to conserve." The authors believe the human family also has to _choose_. The people we speak with at the recycling depot or organic juice bar are for the most part not looking at

Jeane Manning - Breakthrough Power: How Quantum-Leap New Energy Inventions Can Transform Our World

He (Comings) has in the past performed successful energy-converting experiments, creating a ringing resonance by injecting certain frequencies into piezo-electric crystals. When the crystal was in resonance with the plenum of space, the power output rose significantly higher than the input. He concluded that, if allowed politically, such discoveries could guide humankind in building a completely clean energy infrastructure -- resonant technologies that allow us to live in harmony with the univer

Randall Munroe - What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, switching to Yoda power probably isn't worth the trouble — though it would definitely be green.

Nikola Tesla - My Inventions

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

Genereux Philip -

LIFE IS LIKE ELECTRICITY, ANYONE CAN SHOCK YOU

George Carlin -

Electricity is really just organized lightning

Steven Magee - Electrical Forensics

It may be possible that Leukemia in children is linked to the location of the fuse board and the electrical meter on the home.

Fernán Caballero -

There is a force more powerful than steam and electricity: the will.

Susan Quinn - The Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times

In the final scene of Power, the Supreme Court justices appear as a striking abstraction: Nine scowling masks line up in a row on top of a giant podium. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes speaks the majority opinion: 'Water power, the right to convert it into electric energy, and the electric energy thus produced constitute property belonging to the United States.

Steven Magee -

Utility electricity is a known hazardous biological toxin and the toxicity of it is increasing as it progresses into harmonic electronic power generation (Wind & Solar) and wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation smart/AMR/AMI meters.

Steven Magee -

If you are looking for a job that may make you sick, I can recommend working at a high powered solar photovoltaic (PV) utility power plant.

Steven Magee -

The masses have yet to realize that generating your own electricity is a potentially hazardous activity to engage in.

Anthony Liccione -

God is the light bulb, to where faith is the light switch.

Steven Magee - Toxic Electricity

When I was researching the book Toxic Electricity, I would see biological reactions for up to a week afterwards. They are typically strong in the first day or two after the electromagnetic field (EMF) exposures and tail off as the week goes on. I would feel fine during the EMF exposures and start seeing weird health effects usually during sleep that night. Extended time around high voltage power lines & power poles were the worst for provoking reactions, followed by wifi and transmitting utility

Steven Magee -

It really should be a criminal offense for an electrician to mount a breaker box on a bedroom wall. Unfortunately, I see the solar industry mounting inverters on bedroom walls also!

William Kamkwamba - The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

Mister Geoffrey, my experiment shows that the dynamo and the bulb are both working properly," I said. "So why won't the radio play?""I don't know," he said. "Try connecting them here."He was pointing toward a socket on the radio labeled "AC," and when I shoved the wires inside, the radio came to life. We shouted with excitement. As I pedaled the bicycle, I could hear the great Billy Kaunda playing his happy music on Radio Two, and that made Geoffrey start to dance."Keep pedaling," he said. "That

Steven Magee - Light Forensics

The current generation of solar and wind power systems generally introduce instability into the electrical utility grid system with their intermittent power generation characteristics and electronically generated harmonic energy.

William Henry Preece -

The discovery of the telephone has made us acquainted with many strange phenomena. It has enabled us, amongst other things, to establish beyond a doubt the fact that electric currents actually traverse the earth's crust. The theory that the earth acts as a great reservoir for electricity may be placed in the physicist's waste-paper basket, with phlogiston, the materiality of light, and other old-time hypotheses.

Kamila Shamsie - Kartography

Bijli fails in the dead of night / Won’t help to call “I need a light” / You’re in Karachi now / Oh, oh you’re in Karachi now. / Night is falling and you just cant see / Is this illusion or KESC / You’re in Karachi now

Steven Magee - Light Forensics

You should be aiming to illuminate your indoor daytime environment with natural outdoor light, not electrical lighting products.

L.H. -

Everything is light, everything is warmth, everything is electricity, everything is a magnetic field, everything is you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne -

Is it a fact – or have I dreamt it – that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?

Michael Bassey Johnson -

Every idea is in the soul of its owner. No other power can shift it to another soul, that is why we have the telephone, aircraft, etc, each having its unique inventor.

Steven Magee -

Loss of cell phone reception inside of a building generally indicates that the following two issues may be present: 1. High electromagnetic interference (EMI) environment from dirty electricity that is being generated by electronic products. 2. Shielding and Faraday cage effects from metalwork in the building.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective solution is to tell them to go ahead and stick their finger in the socket. And what I find is that what my argument failed to solve, electricity does quite nicely.