Electric Quotes

518 quotes by 400 authors

Today we no longer ask what really goes on in an atom; we ask what is likely to be observed-and with what likelihood-when we subject… — Otto Robert Frisch
[S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the rate of 1,000,000… — Francis William Aston
The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance… — Richard Owen
I'm out talking about this company (General Electric) seven days a week, 24 hours a day, with nothing to hide. We're a 130-year-old company that… — Jeffrey R. Immelt
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph. — George Bernard Shaw
I dust [your photo] carefully every morning, for to do so gives me the pleasant feeling that I'm caressing you as in the old days.… — Nelson Mandela
And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses,… — Maya Angelou
What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as… — Thomas Jefferson
But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there be to take his life?… — Ernest Gaines
Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of… — Nikola Tesla
I don't think very highly of Henrik Fisker. [...H]e thinks the reason we don't have electric cars is for lack of styling — Elon Musk
America is addicted to oil...We must also change how we power our automobiles. We will increase our research in better batteries for hybrid and electric… — George W. Bush
Eventually, we can get to a system where an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your… — Carol Browner
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through… — George Orwell
Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting. The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop game in which… — Alan Hansen
These seven centers, these seven chakras Yoga and Tantra have talked about down the ages, are nothing but five knots in your body electric current.… — Rajneesh
Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress. — B. C. Forbes
Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design and build a… — Arthur Compton
But we must also look at renewable heat technology. More combined heat and power schemes, putting waste heat to better use. More district heating schemes.… — Chris Huhne
There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and music gathering those… — Michael Martin Murphey

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