Electricity Quotes

426 Electricity quotes by 350 unique authors

The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity... — George Herbert
The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant achievements in science.… — James Clerk Maxwell
In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no… — Benjamin Franklin
For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a… — George Bernard Shaw
I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large and… — Michael Faraday
It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The… — Henry Ward Beecher
White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak. — James Joyce
The brain is a little saline pool that acts as a conductor, and it runs on electricity. — Judith Hooper
Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours. — Denis Hayes
There is no such thing as an achieved liberty: like electricity, there can be no substantial storage and it must be generated as it is… — Robert H. Jackson
Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out. — Wayne LaPierre
As electricity is a great power in the world, so the inner mind is the greatest power available to you. Neither operates independently; both depend… — Roger McDonald
Believe me, you can have anything you want-and in abundance-when you learn to tune into the power within, an infinitely greater power than electricity, a… — Roger McDonald
The determination of the relationship and mutual dependence of the facts in particular cases must be the first goal of the Physicist; and for this… — Franz Karl Achard
The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into air, or when… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein
We want a national emissions trading scheme, the Government does not and has rejected one for years. We want to boost the mandatory renewable energies… — Kevin Rudd
An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of… — Denis Hayes
The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else — Ambrose Bierce
Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. . . . Because I'm capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants,… — Barack Obama
A cap and trade bill will likely increase the costs of electricity. . . . These costs will be passed on to the consumers. But… — Steven Chu
If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of tackling… — Julia Gillard
We can't tell an electorate...when you have something like in excess of 300 million people without any access to electricity at all that you have… — Unknown Author
The writing process is sort of like when you've got no electricity and you've gotten up in the middle of the night to find the… — Carolyn Chute
There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more… — Andrew Greeley

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