Magnetic Quotes

149 quotes by 127 authors

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. — Honore de Balzac
I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it… — Gordon Moore
Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the present state of… — Nikola Tesla
On the course, what is feared is like a magnet. Water, bunkers, trees, ravines, high grass - whatever you fear turns magnetic. — Wiffi Smith
My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the… — Lewis Carroll
Knowledge in not acquired from without but merely recollected from within. The recollection of knowledge from within is an electro-magnetic process of thinking Mind... — Walter Russell
The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew. — William Gilbert
The mind creates so many temptations - so alluring they are, so magnetic is their power - that unless you are in the power-field of… — Rajneesh
The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a… — James Prescott Joule
We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to… — Henry David Thoreau
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
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing… — Edward Mills Purcell
When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged… — Arthur Koestler
Our EMF meter was jumping off the charts. We found her alarm clock was causing crazy electro-magnetic fields around it. We spent $22.99 on a… — Jason Hawes
My aim is to say that the machinery of the heavens is not like a divine animal but like a clock (and anyone who believes… — Johannes Kepler
I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is… — Morley Safer
It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase… — John von Neumann
In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one… — David Lehman
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us… — Brenda Ueland

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