Electricity Quotes

426 quotes by 366 authors

Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways… — Margaret Atwood
We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires. — Dave Barry
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover… — L. Frank Baum
The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they… — Jeff Bezos
Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of… — David Bowie
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a… — Bill Bryson
Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to… — James Buchan
For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear… — James Buchan
The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants. — George W. Bush
I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit… — Jane Campion
Electricity is really just organized lightning. — George Carlin
What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room. — Ray Charles
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. — Anton Chekhov
Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see him shoot… — Tim Allen
A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire. — Laurie Anderson
It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite… — Winston Churchill
Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? — Bill Gates
But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe' or to anything?… — James Clerk Maxwell
God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the… — George MacDonald

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