Oliver Lodge Quotes
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There is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is altogether too uniform for direct…
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The conception of Godhead formed by some devout philosophers and mystics has quite rightly been so immeasurably vast, though still assuredly utterly inadequate and necessarily…
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But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.
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Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
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Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such…
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Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
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Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.
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The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must…
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The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.
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In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.
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Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually…
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Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.
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Death is the end of a stage, not the end of the journey. The road stretches on beyond our comprehension.
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If the 'Principle of Relativity' in an extreme sense establishes itself, it seems as if even Time would become discontinuous and be supplied in atoms,…
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict…
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The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most…
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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…
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The discovery which has been pointed to by theory is always one of profound interest and importance, but it is usually the close and crown…
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Matter moves, but Ether is strained.
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