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Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary. -- Henry Ford
He presented himself at Mr Edison's -- Napoleon Hill
To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be the most noble achievement ever performed by man. -- Alfred Smee
Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton. -- Chaim Weizmann
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison. -- W.c. Fields
The two great agents of the physical world have become subject to the will of man and have been made subservient to his wants and enjoyments; I allude to steam and electricity, under whatever name the latter may be called. -- John C. Calhoun
Electromagnetic theory and experiment gave us the telephone, radio, TV, computers, and made the internal combustion engine practical - thus, the car and airplane, leading inevitably to the rocket and outer-space exploration. -- Gregory Benford
The rotating armatures of every generator and motor in this age of electricity are steadily proclaiming the truth of the relativity theory to all who have ears to hear. -- Leigh Page
Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same. -- Lydia M. Child
Hummings and clickings could be heard-the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic crises to a condition that was translatable from electrical qualities and quantities to a high grade of truth. -- Kurt Vonnegut
This work is the result of a meeting of minds from two of the most successful men in their respective fields. -- Will Carling
I will make you love physics and your life will never be the same. -- Walter Lewin
Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it. NIKOLA TESLA1 -- Marc Seifer
Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal. -- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
a vast collection of electric charges in violent motion. -- Bertrand Russell
declared Tesla as the true "father of radio. -- Sean Patrick
about a he. Nothing about Rutherford. -- Ernie Lindsey
Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses. -- Nikola Tesla
I love it when you talk dirty physics. -- Rachel Caine
God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living. -- John Mason Brown
M. A. Rosanoff: Mr. Edison, please tell me what laboratory rules you want me to observe. Edison: There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish somep'n! -- Thomas A. Edison
I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911) -- Ernest Rutherford
The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of the universe. Discredited and discarded by Einstein, the aether is now making a Nixonian comeback. It's really the vacuum, but burdened by theoretical, ghostly particles. -- Leon M. Lederman
Albert tin. Why're -- Anne Tyler
When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged with energy - as Faraday saw the stresses surrounding magnets and currents as curves in space; or as Van Gogh saw vortices in the skies of Provence. -- Arthur Koestler
Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire. -- Bobbie Ann Mason
The Earliest Electromagnetic Instruments, by Robert A. Chipman -- Anonymous
The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination. -- Edwin Howard Armstrong
more diamonds and pearls of electricity -- Allen Ginsberg
Mab had the kind of power you had to describe using exponents. -- Jim Butcher
The young detective possessed that peculiar ability more common to elderly men, which produces negative energy around electrical equipment, turning even the most basic appliances into weapons of destruction. -- Christopher Fowler
Magnitude -15 A drifting mote of dust coming to rest on a table Sometimes it's nice not to destroy the world for a change. -- Randall Munroe
Eberhard had come up with the name Tesla Motors, both to pay homage to the inventor and electric motor pioneer Nikola Tesla and because it sounded cool. -- Ashlee Vance
world seems filled with people who are genuinely, deeply interested in physics but whose lives have taken them in different directions. This book is for all of us. -- Leonard Susskind
All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him. -- Hunter S. Thompson
One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend, is not the same thing as the current of conduction, but that the time-variation of the electric displacement must [also] be taken into account ... -- James Clerk Maxwell
Never be less interesting than your refrigerator magnets. -- Demetri Martin
That energy which veils itself in mildness is most effective of its object. -- Magha
Today's scientific question is: What in the world is electricity? And where does it go after it leaves the toaster? -- Dave Barry
As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming converters belching forth, made such a vivid impression upon my youthful mind that it will never fade. I thought I had seen the very acme of what might be accomplished in an industrial way. -- Charles M. Schwab
True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier - when it's spelled with a lower case letter. -- Richard Hamming
Physicists dream of Nobel prizes, engineers dream of mishaps. -- Hendrik Tennekes
You are a living magnet with magnetic power emitting from your every thought. -- Debasish Mridha
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. -- Bertrand Russell
Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh. -- Mike Pence
Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war. -- Pierre Curie
That impresses me more, inventin' electricity. -- Karl Pilkington
Only one man lived who could understand Gibbs's papers. That was Maxwell, and now he is dead. -- Muriel Rukeyser
The electron: may it never be of any use to anybody! -- Joseph John Thomson
Maximilien R. Peters! Incorruptible, ineluctable, and indestructable! It's time to start a revolution, baby -- Jennifer Donnelly
In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is. -- Rumi
THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Magnetic Memory Method by visiting his website Magnetic Memory Method and listening to his podcast. -- Joanna Jast
All great discoveries in experimental physics have been due to the intuition of men who made free use of models, which were for them not products of the imagination but representatives of real things.
Max Born (1953) -- Victor J. Stenger
Rutherford showed how radio waves could travel long distances, penetrate walls, and magnetize iron. -- Paul Halpern
Taking him for all and all, I think it will be conceded that Michael Faraday was the greatest experimental philosopher the world has ever seen. -- John Tyndall
The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field. -- Albert Einstein
The labour we delight in physics pain -- William Shakespeare
Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
This law (regarding the theoretical efficiency of heat engines by Mr. Joule), and the law of the maximum efficiency of heat engines, are particular cases of a general law which regulates all transformation of energy, and is the basis of the Science of Energetics. -- William John Macquorn Rankine
Physics, beware of metaphysics. -- Isaac Newton
I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns. -- James Clerk Maxwell
Edison concentrated upon the work of harmonizing natural laws -- Napoleon Hill
His megawatt smile ramped up a few volts. -- Holly Ford
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple -- Gene Wilder
meinstein n. My son, the genius. -- Steven Pinker
I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics. -- Leonard Susskind
I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large and I think rich. -- Michael Faraday
There was something magnetic about him"
~Sarah Addison Allen -- Sarah Addison Allen
If the worst thing a physicist could say about a statement is that it was "false," the best thing he could say is that it was "interesting. -- Dexter Palmer
Similarly, there are two types of men. There is the magnetized man who is full of confidence and faith. He knows that he is born to win and to succeed. Then, there is the type of man who is demagnetized. He is full of fears and doubts. -- Joseph Murphy
I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear. -- Nikola Tesla
The "question" is thee transformable power. -- Ted Agon
heat radiating off of his skin, coming -- Yaa Gyasi
What is your name?" Ariane asked him. The kid put up his deflector screens and said, "Einstein." Silence then. When no one laughed, he stood straighter and drifted closer. -- Neal Stephenson
The entire electromagnetic spectrum - from radar to TV, infrared light, visible light, ultraviolet light, X-rays, microwaves, and gamma rays - is nothing but Maxwell waves, which in turn are vibrating Faraday force fields. -- Michio Kaku
Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything. -- Egon Friedell
As John Maxwell has written, "You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything."9 -- Greg Mckeown
Sparks are warm while they last. -- Susan Price
Sparks fly, it's like electricity ... -- Miranda Cosgrove
Scranton showed that we have been building and using jet engines in a completely trial-and-error experiential manner, without anyone truly understanding the theory. Builders -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Engineers: they spend so much time solving physical problems and obeying physical rules, they forget that nonphysical phenomena obey rules every bit as strict. Tara -- Max Gladstone
Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America. -- Felix Bloch
Tesla, at least, seemed perfectly satisfied with what he had achieved in Colorado. He had made lightning dance at his command; he had used the whole Earth as a piece of laboratory equipment; and he had received messages from the stars. Now he was in a hurry to get on with the future. -- Margaret Cheney
Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices -- Homer
Get into the Carmichael car, Michael Carmichael ... get into the Carmichael car, Michael Carmichael. -- Stephen Fry
I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin fricated on silke clothe. Ye flame putteth me in mind of sheet lightning on a small-how very small-scale. -- Isaac Newton
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
Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering world -- Karl Taylor Compton
A combustion engine of ambition and disappointment. -- Tina Fey
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
Joy is the most Magnetic Force in the Universe! -- Danielle Laporte
There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry. -- Donald G. Mitchell
At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential. -- Marshall Mcluhan
What is his name? -- Jane Austen
would first meet Thomas Edison, Paul watched a man burn -- Graham Moore
Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre. -- Benjamin Franklin
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN -- Benjamin Franklin
