Time Quote by Sean Patrick

“Willfully polluting the ground with AC electricity is just another aspect of how the electrical utility companies will be remembered by the next generation.”

— Steven Magee

“Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World, by Jill Jonnes,”

— Graham Moore

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

“Strange things happen with electricity in a vacuum.”

— Steven Magee

“A few years ago, I made a serious effort to get better about turning off the lights in my house, and my wife’s and…

— David Owen

Mysterious affair, electricity.

— Samuel Beckett

“This week in live current events: your eyes. All power can be dangerous: Direct or alternating, you, socket to me. Plugged in and the…

— Daphne Gottlieb

“that this form of electricity would ever be available in non-metropolitan areas.”

— Sean Patrick

“All power corrupts, but we need electricity.”

— Diana Wynne Jones

“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

Electricity is but yet a new agent for the arts and manufactures, and, doubtless, generations unborn will regard with interest this century, in which…

— Alfred Smee

Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could…

— Thomas A. Edison