Oliver Lodge Quotes

• Death is the end of a stage, not the end of the journey. The road stretches on beyond our comprehension.

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  Death, Journey, Ends

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• Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.

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  Adventure, Memorial, Headstone

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• A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it.

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  Mean, Water, Existence

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• Matter moves, but Ether is strained.

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  Moving, Science, Matter

  Sir Oliver Lodge (1914). “Continuity: The Presidential Address to the British Association for 1913”

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• There is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is altogether too uniform for direct apprehension. A deep-sea fish has probably no means of apprehending the existence of water, it is too uniformly immersed in it: and that is our condition in regard to the Ether.

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  Mean, Science, Sea

  Oliver Lodge (2012). “Ether and Reality: A Series of Discourses on the Many Functions of the Ether of Space”, p.28, Cambridge University Press

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• The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

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  Personality, Facts, Able

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• Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

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  Soul, Body, Extinction

  Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymond Lodge (Spirit) (1916). “Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of "Raymond Or Life and Death" with an Additional Chapter”

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• There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.

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  Life, Science, Energy

  Sir Oliver Lodge (1918). “Christopher: A Study in Human Personality”, London : Cassell

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• If the 'Principle of Relativity' in an extreme sense establishes itself, it seems as if even Time would become discontinuous and be supplied in atoms, as money is doled out in pence or centimes instead of continuously;-in which case our customary existence will turn out to be no more really continuous than the events on a kinematograph screen;-while that great agent of continuity, the Ether of Space, will be relegated to the museum of historical curiosities.

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  Time, Science, Museums

  Sir Oliver Lodge (1914). “Continuity: The Presidential Address to the British Association for 1913”

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• Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

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  Birth

  Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymond Lodge (Spirit) (1916). “Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of "Raymond Or Life and Death" with an Additional Chapter”

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• The conception of Godhead formed by some devout philosophers and mystics has quite rightly been so immeasurably vast, though still assuredly utterly inadequate and necessarily beneath reality, that the notion of a God revealed in human formborn, sufferin.

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  Reality, Philosopher, Notion

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• But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.

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  Energy, Matter, Life Is

  Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymond Lodge (Spirit) (1916). “Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of "Raymond Or Life and Death" with an Additional Chapter”

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• Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.

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  Prejudice, Impossible, Broads

  Oliver Lodge (2012). “Past Years: An Autobiography”, p.306, Cambridge University Press

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• ..if a special geometry has to be invented in order to account for a falling apple, even Newton might be appalled at the complications which would ensue when really difficult problems are tackled.

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  Fall, Order, Apples

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• Men of Science would do well to talk plain English. The most abstruse questions can very well be discussed in our own tongue ... I make a particular appeal to the botanists, who appear to delight in troublesome words.

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  Men, Delight, Tongue

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• Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.

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  Survival, Matter, Way

  Oliver Lodge (2012). “My Philosophy: Representing My Views on the Many Functions of the Ether of Space”, p.295, Cambridge University Press

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• In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

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  Stronger, May, Cases

  Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymond Lodge (Spirit) (1916). “Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of "Raymond Or Life and Death" with an Additional Chapter”

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• The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

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  Experts, May, Matter

  Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymond Lodge (Spirit) (1916). “Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of "Raymond Or Life and Death" with an Additional Chapter”

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• The discovery which has been pointed to by theory is always one of profound interest and importance, but it is usually the close and crown of a long and fruitful period, whereas the discovery which comes as a puzzle and surprise usually marks a fresh epoch and opens a new chapter in science.

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  Science, Discovery, Long

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• We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

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  Communication, Character, Determined

  Sir Oliver Lodge (2016). “Raymond Or Life And Death”, p.80, Read Books Ltd

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• The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.

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  Quality, Different, States

  Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymond Lodge (Spirit) (1916). “Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of "Raymond Or Life and Death" with an Additional Chapter”

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• Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

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  Energy, Form, Term

  Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymond Lodge (Spirit) (1916). “Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of "Raymond Or Life and Death" with an Additional Chapter”

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• The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.

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  Fashion, Survival, Sitting

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