Electricity Quote by Earl Wilson

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

— Earl Warren

ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else. It is the same thing as lightning,…

— Ambrose Bierce

“Franklin’s scientific achievements placed him in the pantheon with Newton. Franklin’s experiments, he wrote in 1941, “afforded a basis for the explanation for all…

— Walter Isaacson

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or…

— David Antin

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…

— Dave Barry

Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very…

— Bram Stoker

“Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the…

— Marc Seifer

We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured…

— Ambrose Bierce

“There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves…

— Bram Stoker

What one man can invent, another can discover.

— Anonymous

The old idea that some genius pulls all of this stuff out of the air is ridiculous. As Ridley pointed out, the only way…

— Charles Koch