Electrical Quotes

• The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

  Margaret Fuller

  Spiritual, Women, Believe

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

  Edgard Varese

  Writing, Men, Adequate

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• Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Pain, Moving, Heart

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• I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Children, Engineering, Radio

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• The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Ease, Matter, Resistance

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1834). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.258

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• In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?

  Humphry Davy

  Matter, Causes, Energy

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• I also believe that we have an extraordinary opportunity for the United States and European Union to lead the world in developing and implementing new and more efficient technologies - smart electrical grids and electrical vehicles.

  Hillary Clinton

  Smart, Believe, Technology

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• I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  May, Kind, Electricity

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.382

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• We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Mean, Energy, Armageddon

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

  Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

  Photography, Silence, Records

  "Life of Pitt" by Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1891.

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• All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.

  David R. Brower

  Years, Growth, Energy

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• The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.

  Vinton Cerf

  Taken, Electrical Power, People

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• After years of study and personal on-site investigation of UFO reports, I am certain that there is more than ample high-quality observational evidence from highly trained and reliable lay witnesses to indicate that there are unidentified machine-like objects under intelligent control operating in our atmosphere. Such evidence in some cases is supported by anomalous physical effects upon the witnesses, electrical devices, and the environment, as well as by instrumentation such as radar and Geiger counters.

  Raymond E. Fowler

  Intelligent, Years, Atmosphere

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• It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.

  Polly Toynbee

  Happiness, Pain, People

  "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.

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• There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment than the TV set.

  Harriet Van Horne

  House, Vacuums, Television

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Reason, Polemics, Shock

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• If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified large glass jar, taken through his own body, will probably convince him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Taken, Glasses, Doubt

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1834). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.258

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• 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 machine composed of magnets and bars of iron set in motion by an electrical battery. I have proved by actual experiment that, in exact proportion to the force with which this machine works, heat is abstracted from the electrical battery. You see, therefore, that living force may be converted into heat, and that heat may be converted into living force, or its equivalent attraction through space.

  James Prescott Joule

  Life, Science, Iron

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• In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies more than we can prove, or we have to use vague and general terms which hide the essential point, instead of bringing it out. The history of electrical theories furnishes a good example.

  Arthur Schuster

  Science, Expression, Two

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• The experiment left no doubt that, as far as accuracy of measurement went, the resistance disappeared. At the same time, however, something unexpected occurred. The disappearance did not take place gradually but abruptly. From 1/500 the resistance at 4.2K, it could be established that the resistance had become less than a thousand-millionth part of that at normal temperature. Thus the mercury at 4.2K has entered a new state, which, owing to its particular electrical properties, can be called the state of superconductivity.

  Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

  Science, Doubt, Owing

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• Having an audience is almost like plugging me into an electrical outlet. People feed me so much of their energy. We have a great time. It's all about the fellowship.

  Paula Deen

  People, Energy, Fellowship

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• Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Matter, Common, Electricity

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1834). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.258

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• And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes; matter assumes new forms, the destruction of one order of beings tends to the conservation of another; solution and consolidation, decay and renovation, are connected; and whilst the parts of the system continue in a state of fluctuation and change, the order and harmony of the whole remain unalterable.

  Humphry Davy

  Change, Science, Animal

  "The Collected Works: Discourses delivered before the Royal Society".

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• Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Cutting, Cold, Film

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• There's an electrical thing about movies.

  Oliver Stone

  Movie, Gambling, Actors

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