Electrical Power Quotes:

We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.

- Barry Goldwater

source: "Delightful journey, down the Green & Colorado rivers".

topic: Mean, Electrical Power, Rivers

The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.

- Vinton Cerf

topic: Taken, People, Purpose, Electrical Power, Electrical

And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes [in animal and vegetal substances]; matter assumes new forms, the destruction of one order of beings tends to the conservation of another, solution and consolidation, decay and renovation, are connected, and whilst the parts of the system, continue in a state of fluctuation and change, the order and harmony of the whole remain unalterable.

- Humphry Davy

source: "The Collected Works: Discourses delivered before the Royal Society".

topic: Animal, Light, Order, Renovation, Consolidation

Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents it to the mind ... there is an immensity of facts which justify us in believing that the atoms of matter are in some way endowed or associated with electrical powers, to which they owe their most striking qualities, and amongst them their mutual chemical affinity.

- Michael Faraday

topic: Believe, Science, Ideas, Electrical Power

I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.

- Gaylord Nelson

topic: Thinking, Years, Cities, Electrical Power, Combustion

It was the White Man who spanned the continents of the world with railroads and super highways and electrical power lines. It was the White Man who created the miraculous world of electronics, ushering in the telephone, the radio and television. It was the White Race, who in a combined burst of energy and genius sent rockets to the moon and planted the feet of the White Man on extra-terrestrial territory in the last decade.

- Ben Klassen

source: "Nature's Eternal Religion" by Ben Klassen, 1973.

topic: Moon, Men, Race, White Race, Electrical Power

A great scholar, in the highest sense of the term, is not one who depends simply on an infinite memory, but also on an infinite and electrical power of combination; bringing together from the four winds, like the Angel of the Resurrection, what else were dust from dead men's bones, into the unity of breathing life.

- Thomas de Quincey

topic: Memories, Angel, Men, Electrical Power, Breathing Life

Some actors really like to do only a few, some like Casey [Affleck] will do as many takes as there is electrical power. At some point, you'll say, "Listen, I think it's really good." And he'll say, "You sure? You sure? There's not some other way we should try it?"

- Kenneth Lonergan

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Electrical Power