Common Quote by Benjamin Franklin

The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as…

— Benjamin Franklin

Science knows the qualities of electricity, but not its real essence.

— Mahmoud Mohammed Taha

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

— George Carlin

The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we…

— Anonymous

It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with electrons and…

— Kristian Birkeland

Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else

— Ambrose Bierce

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its…

— Humphry Davy

The experiments made on the mutual electrical relations of bodies have taught us that they can be divided into two classes: electropositive and electronegative.…

— Jons Jacob Berzelius

“The intangible, as you can guess, creates some decidedly strange and perceived dichotomies for scientific interpretations. Ask a scientist what the definition of electricity…

— H.D. Rennerfeldt

At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal…

— Johannes Stark

Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents it to…

— Michael Faraday

Electricity comes from other planets.

— Lou Reed