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Tag Name "Electricity" (241)

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Electricity is but yet a new agent for the arts and manufactures, and, doubtless, generations unborn will regard with interest this century, in which it has been first applied to the wants of mankind.
Alfred Smee
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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else
Ambrose Bierce
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Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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Electricity generation emits more carbon dioxide in the United States than does transportation or industry, and nuclear power is the largest source of carbon-free electricity in the country.
Ernest Moniz
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Electricity for example was considered a very Satanic thing when it was first discovered and utilized.
Zeena Schreck
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Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.
Janet Frame
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Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive.
Mason Cooley
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Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything.
Egon Friedell
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Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.
Marshall McLuhan
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The next big invention that will change the way we live should be things like ways of generating energy like electricity.
Bill Gates
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I believe that I have really found the relationship between gravitation and electricity, assuming that the Miller experiments are based on a fundamental error. Otherwise, the whole relativity theory collapses like a house of cards.
Albert Einstein
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When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one's figured out how to meter the sun yet. And that's good.
Bill McKibben
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In Nepal, I realized a certain part of my spiritual search had come to an end. I wasn't ever going to live in a Himalayan cave (I like electricity and a soft bed way too much), and I sure wasn't going to find enlightenment so easily.
Alexander Weinstein
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Fuller believed human societies would soon rely mainly on renewable sources of energy, such as solar- and wind-derived electricity,. envisioned an age of universal education and sustenance of all humanity. The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
Blaise Pascal
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A new era has dawned in Ontario one where the air will be cleaner and the multiple costs of coal-fired generation have become a distant memory. Atikokan's successful conversion to biomass will put Ontario on the world map as a leader in using this sustainable fuel source for electricity production.
Bob Chiarelli
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As I experienced life on the island, without electricity, plumbing or telephone, I thought it was important to show that people can live as I did without dying or falling apart. I wanted people to understand that we don't need everything that our culture tells us we have to have to be satisfied.
Alix Kates Shulman
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I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.
Boz Scaggs
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Basic services such as electricity have never been worse and the economy of Arab Iraq is in ruins.
Andrew Gilligan
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Within a few decades...the United States might get 30% of its electricity from sunshine.
Christopher Flavin
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Now that we all agree contraception is a bad idea, let's take a harder look at electricity and soap.
Andy Borowitz
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The real potential of electricity lies not in providing social amenities but in stimulating long-term economic development
Christopher Flavin
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Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.
Anne Lamott
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Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.
danah boyd
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With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will come from gas-fired electric generation. However, I do not believe it is wise for America to substitute dependence on foreign oil for dependence on Chinese batteries.
Aubrey McClendon
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