Energy Quotes - Page 9

• Love is energy of life.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Energy Of Life, Self Improvement

  "Love's Way". Book by Orison Swett Marden, p. 175, 1918.

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• Energy is the measure of that which passes from one atom to another in the course of their transformations. A unifying power, then, but also, because the atom appears to become enriched or exhausted in the course of the exchange, the expression of structure.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Expression, Atoms

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• From the aspect of energy, renewed by radio-active phenomena, material corpuscles may now be treated as transient reservoirs of concentrated power. Though never found in a state of purity, but always more or less granulated (even in light) energy nowadays represents for science the most primitive form of universal stuff.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Light, May

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• I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Science, Light, Should Have

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• The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable of teaching him also the uses of wealth.

  Frederick Soddy

  Philosophy, Teaching, Science

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• The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy

  Frederick Soddy

  Men, Available, Amount

  Frederick Soddy (1920). “Science and Life: Aberdeen Addresses”

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• The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Light, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations...”

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• Thought isn't a form of energy. So how on Earth can it change material processes? That question has still not been answered.

  Vladimir Vernadsky

  Change, Science, Earth

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• All peoples everywhere should have free energy sources.

  Nikola Tesla

  Should Have, Source, Should

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• When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot.

  Shlomo Riskin

  Two, Crowds, Steps

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• Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.

  Steven Chu

  Europe, Gasoline, Levels

  "Times Tough for Energy Overhaul" by Neil King Jr. and Stephen Power, www.wsj.com. December 12, 2008.

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• The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy.

  Lester R. Brown

  Cells, Wind, Foundation

  Lester R. Brown, Michael Renner (2014). “Vital Signs 1999-2000: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future”, p.16, Routledge

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• A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent.

  Henry Moore

  Independent, Light, May

  Henry Moore, Sir Herbert Edward Read, Alan Bowness (1957). “Henry Moore: 1921-1948”

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• The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.

  Aristotle

  Life, Exercise, Science

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• In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But in so far as they consume the fuel resources of the globe they are very different. The one is like spending the interest on a legacy, and the other is like spending the legacy itself. ... [There is] a still hardly recognised coming energy problem.

  Frederick Soddy

  Running, Nature, Science

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• Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far as is known, not merely by inanimate things, but also by living organisms, in their minutest parts, as single individuals, and also as whole communities. It results from this that, however complicated a series of phenomena may be and however many other sciences may enter into its complete presentation, the purely physical aspect, or the application of the known laws of matter and energy, can always be legitimately separated from the other aspects.

  Frederick Soddy

  Science, Law, Community

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• Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.

  Ted Solotaroff

  Writing, Comeback, Source

  Ted Solotaroff (2008). “The Literary Community: Selected Essays : 1967-2007”

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• Liebig himself seems to have occupied the role of a gate, or sorting-demon, such as his younger contemporary Clerk Maxwell once proposed, helping to concentrate energy into one favored room of the Creation at the expense of everything else.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Clerks, Roles, Rooms

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• It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to the past. But if you could obtain large quantities of negative energy-and that's a big "IF" - then you could create a time machine that apparently obeys Einstein's equation and perhaps the laws of quantum theory.

  Michio Kaku

  Past, Law, Civilization

  "Borrowed Time". Interview with J.R. Minkel, www.scientificamerican.com. November 24, 2003.

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• 'Conservation' (the conservation law) means this ... that there is a number, which you can calculate, at one moment-and as nature undergoes its multitude of changes, this number doesn't change. That is, if you calculate again, this quantity, it'll be the same as it was before. An example is the conservation of energy: there's a quantity that you can calculate according to a certain rule, and it comes out the same answer after, no matter what happens, happens.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Change, Nature, Mean

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• Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.

  Adam Sedgwick

  Nature, Science, Movement

  Address to the Geological Society, delivered on the Evening of the 18th of February 1831, Proceedings of the Geological Society, 1, 307, 1834.

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• Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control its almost infinite power. We cannot prevent him from doing so and can only hope that he will not use it exclusively in blowing up his next door neighbour. (1936)

  Francis William Aston

  Hope, Science, Men

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• A star is drawing on some vast reservoir of energy by means unknown to us. This reservoir can scarcely be other than the subatomic energy which, it is known exists abundantly in all matter; we sometimes dream that man will one day learn how to release it and use it for his service. The store is well nigh inexhaustible, if only it could be tapped. There is sufficient in the Sun to maintain its output of heat for 15 billion years.

  Arthur Eddington

  Dream, Stars, Learning

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• The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from ushering opinions into the world which deviate from common practice. Hence for want of energy, the young idea is shackled with timidity and a useful thought is buried in the impenetrable gloom of eternal oblivion.

  Robert Fulton

  Ignorance, Science, Men

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• It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in physics, where leading theorists are striving, with the help of experimentalists, to devise a single mathematical theory that embraces all the basic phenomena of matter and energy. The other two are in biology. Biologists-and the rest of us too-would like to know how the brain works and how a single cell, the fertilized egg cell, develops into an entire organism

  Dennis Flanagan

  Science, Cells, Eggs

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