Electrical Quotes
142 quotes by 127 authors
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You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and electrical; ideas become…
— Jack Vance
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Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is the man who is not only a machine…
— Norman Mailer
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Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man…
— Bram Stoker
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And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Robot Wars is not a sport. Guys just play with remote controls. Now, if they were wired up and got an electrical shock each time…
— Paolo Di Canio
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Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I…
— Walt Whitman
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There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human…
— Mignon McLaughlin
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I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation,…
— Gaylord Nelson
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This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest - and…
— Aleister Crowley
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This is the age of electrical energy. The age of atomic energy hasn't really dawned yet, not in the way that atomic energy has evolved…
— Frederick Lenz
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I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios…
— Koichi Tanaka
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The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the exterior without booking…
— Seth Godin
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Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents it to the…
— Michael Faraday
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You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like…
— Louise Erdrich
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My mum brought me to my first job when I was 12. I started electrical work at her plant. She was an engineer, a technical…
— Oleg Deripaska
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A sense of electrical current was part of my own experience of being manic. The sensation that my mind was spinning and overheating would sometimes…
— Ellen Forney
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If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown we should simply ban complex financial instruments, unless they can be unambiguously…
— Ha-Joon Chang
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for…
— Walter Kohn
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The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in…
— Dave Barry
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Aren't we grateful for our brains, that can take this electrical impulse that comes from light energy and use it to explore our world? Aren't…
— Louis Schwartzberg
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