Oliver Lodge famous quotes

03-28-2025

There is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is altogether too uniform for direct apprehension. A deep-sea fish has probably no means of apprehending the existence of water, it is too uniformly immersed in it: and that is our condition in regard to the Ether.
-- Oliver Lodge

#Mean #Sea #Water
Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.
-- Oliver Lodge

#Adventure #Memorial #Inevitable
Death is the end of a stage, not the end of the journey. The road stretches on beyond our comprehension.
-- Oliver Lodge

#Death #Journey #Ends
If the 'Principle of Relativity' in an extreme sense establishes itself, it seems as if even Time would become discontinuous and be supplied in atoms, as money is doled out in pence or centimes instead of continuously;-in which case our customary existence will turn out to be no more really continuous than the events on a kinematograph screen;-while that great agent of continuity, the Ether of Space, will be relegated to the museum of historical curiosities.
-- Oliver Lodge

#Museums #Space #Historical
The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
-- Oliver Lodge

#Fashion #Survival #Sitting
The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.
-- Oliver Lodge

#Personality #Able #Facts
There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.
-- Oliver Lodge

#Life #Matter #Energy
The discovery which has been pointed to by theory is always one of profound interest and importance, but it is usually the close and crown of a long and fruitful period, whereas the discovery which comes as a puzzle and surprise usually marks a fresh epoch and opens a new chapter in science.
-- Oliver Lodge

#Discovery #Profound #Long
Matter moves, but Ether is strained.
-- Oliver Lodge

#Moving #Science #Matter
Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.
-- Oliver Lodge

#Prejudice #Impossible #Broads
In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.
-- Oliver Lodge

#Stronger #May #Cases
The conception of Godhead formed by some devout philosophers and mystics has quite rightly been so immeasurably vast, though still assuredly utterly inadequate and necessarily beneath reality, that the notion of a God revealed in human formborn, sufferin.
-- Oliver Lodge

#Reality #Philosopher #Notion
But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.
-- Oliver Lodge

#Matter #Energy #Life Is
Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
-- Oliver Lodge

#Soul #Body #Extinction
Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.
-- Oliver Lodge

#Survival #Matter #Way
Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
-- Oliver Lodge

#Birth
Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.
-- Oliver Lodge

#Energy #Form #Term
The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.
-- Oliver Lodge

#Quality #Different #States
The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.
-- Oliver Lodge

#May #Matter #Experts
We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
-- Oliver Lodge

#Communication #Character #Determined

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