Electric Light Quotes

42 quotes by 36 authors

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most… — Louis D. Brandeis
Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All… — Jeff Bridges
When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it… — George Carlin
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with… — Marshall McLuhan
Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unnatural… — Beverley Nichols
Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means… — James Clerk Maxwell
[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
It's like someone jammed an electric light bulb in your face, and busted it. I thought half my head was blowed off...When he knocked me… — James J. Braddock
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'. — Newt Gingrich
Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can… — Mark Twain
This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads, our factories, our… — George B. Cortelyou
Up there on Huckleberry Mountain, I couldn't sleep ... As the sky broke light over the peaks of Glacier, I found myself deeply moved by… — William Kittredge
And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light and the plumbing… — Ayn Rand
I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and Im it. Im the electric light. — Chubby Checker
In a society where every man works for himself, individual incentive, working for one's self. If people worked for one's self, there wouldn't be the… — Jacque Fresco
We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop using… — Max Frisch
Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby. — Helen Caldicott
Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it. — Dan Flavin
Embracing a low carbon economy will be as momentous as the previous industrial revolutions. As the shift from coal to oil did. And the shift… — Charles Hendry
You know, that's what I've regretted the most, that joy. Of course, later there were times when I felt happy, but happiness is to joy… — Susanna Tamaro

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