Quotes by Oliver Lodge - Page 1

Matter moves, but Ether is strained.
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Matter
Moving
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Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.
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Adventure
Headstone
Memorial
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Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
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Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
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Body
Extinction
Soul
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A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it.
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Existence
Mean
Water
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Death is the end of a stage, not the end of the journey. The road stretches on beyond our comprehension.
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Death
Journey
Ends
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Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.
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Energy
Form
Term
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But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.
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Energy
Life Is
Matter
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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.
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Life
Science
Energy
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In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.
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Cases
May
Stronger
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The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.
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Experts
Matter
May
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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.
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Broads
Impossible
Prejudice
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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.
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Fashion
Sitting
Survival
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..if a special geometry has to be invented in order to account for a falling apple, even Newton might be appalled at the complications which would ensue when really difficult problems are tackled.
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Apples
Fall
Order
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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.
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Matter
Survival
Way
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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.
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Able
Facts
Personality
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Men of Science would do well to talk plain English. The most abstruse questions can very well be discussed in our own tongue ... I make a particular appeal to the botanists, who appear to delight in troublesome words.
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Men
Delight
Tongue
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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.
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Communication
Character
Determined
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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.
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Quality
Different
States
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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.
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Notion
Philosopher
Reality
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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.
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Science
Discovery
Long
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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.
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Science
Mean
Sea
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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.
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Science
Time
Museums
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