Electric Quotes

• There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

  John Keats

  Nature, Fire, Heroism

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.37

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  There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Reading, Learning

  "The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers". "Friars Club Bible of Jokes, Pokes, Roasts, and Toasts". Book by Nina Colman, p. 316, 2001.

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  I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Guitar, Wish, Cotton

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• It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus when he first saw the Western shore, Pizarro when he stared at the Pacific Ocean, Franklin when the electric spark came from the string of his kite, Galileo when he first turned his telescope to the heavens. Such moments are also granted to students in the abstract regions of thought, and high among them must be placed the morning when Descartes lay in bed and invented the method of co-ordinate geometry.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Morning, Ocean, Adventure

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• Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in conductors, which all previous electricians had only succeeded in loosely binding together qualitatively under some rather vague statements. Even as late as 20 years ago, "quantity" and "tension" were much used by men who did not fully appreciate Ohm's law.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Science, Men, Order

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• The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Character, Science, Age

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• In 1891, during the Presidency of William Henry Harrison [Benjamin Harrison], electric lights were first installed in the White House, the residence of the leaders of our country. At that time, commercial electricity was not economically feasible, but President Harrison wanted to affirm his confidence in the technological capability of our country.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Technology, White

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). “Jimmy Carter”

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• Electricity is really just organized lightning.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant achievements in science. The whole, theory and experiment, seems as if it had leaped, full grown and full armed, from the brain of the 'Newton of Electricity'. It is perfect in form, and unassailable in accuracy, and it is summed up in a formula from which all the phenomena may be deduced, and which must always remain the cardinal formula of electro-dynamics.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Law, Perfect

  "A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism".

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• Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

  Lydia M. Child

  Electric Power, Genius, Earth

  "Marius amid the Ruins of Carthage". Poem by Lydia Maria Child,

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• I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

  Edith Sitwell

  Eels, Pool, Catfish

  Attributed to Edith Sitwell in Life Magazine, January 4, 1963.

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• When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Inspirational, Teacher, School

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• An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.

  Johannes Stark

  Positive, Negative, Atoms

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• Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Guitar, My Favorite, Collections

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• Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!

  Johnny Vegas

  Priests, Sermons

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• Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Electric Shock, Discipline

  "The PWOT Bill Gates Interview". Interview with Andrew Lephter, slated.org. April 5, 2008.

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• By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.

  Johannes Stark

  Taken, Humanity, Steps

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• For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.

  Johannes Stark

  Light, Atoms, Wave

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• No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Music, Piano, Acoustics

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• When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.

  David Sanborn

  Play, Nuance, Acoustics

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• A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move.

  Johannes Stark

  Moving, Rays, Owing

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• At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.

  George Duke

  Gigs, Ends, Violinist

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• I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and Im it. Im the electric light.

  Chubby Checker

  Light, Twists, Compare

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• In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

  Uwe Boll

  Revenge, Stories, Alive

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• Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.

  Hu Shih

  Light, Vegetables, Oil

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