Electromagnetic Waves Quotes:

At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.

- Johannes Stark

topic: Light, Discovery, Facts, Discrete, Electromagnetic Waves

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

- Jack Steinberger

topic: Army, Special, Chicago, Electromagnetic Waves

For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.

- Johannes Stark

topic: Light, Atoms, Wave, Light Waves, Oscillation

Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves

- William Cohen

topic: Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Use, Eco, Electromagnetic Waves

What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.

- Boris Pasternak

topic: Writing, Symphony, People, Doctor Zhivago, Electromagnetic Waves

Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves. So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that's why this is so important.

- William Cohen

source: William Cohen's remarks at the news briefing of U.S. Department of Defense, April 28, 1997.

topic: Real, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Electromagnetic Waves

Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave---that is, a traveling disturbance in some background medium---or a particle, which travels regardless of the presence of a background medium. The observation of Maxwell that electromagnetic waves must exist and that their speed was identical to that of light ended the debate: light was an electromagnetic wave.

- Lawrence M. Krauss

topic: Light, Debate, Speed, Maxwell, Electromagnetic Waves

If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world.

- Oliver Heaviside

source: Oliver Heaviside (2008). “Electromagnetic Theory”, p.194, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Self, World, Wave, Electromagnetic Waves

A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your eye.

- Bill Gaede

topic: Eye, Wave, Mathematician, Electromagnetic Waves, Andromeda

I advise everyone to find an island in this life. Find a place where this culture can't take energy away from you, sap your will and originality. Since anything physical can be mental, that island can be your home. Turn off the electromagnetic waves being forced upon you, the countless invisible forces coming at you all the time.

- RZA

source: The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.21, Penguin

topic: Home, Islands, Culture, Electromagnetic Waves, Electromagnetism

Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That's why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that's why they write symphonies.

- Jon Krakauer

source: Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.186, Pan Macmillan

topic: Writing, Views, Symphony, Electromagnetic Waves

It required unusual inquisitiveness to pursue the development of scientific curiosities such as charged pith balls, the voltaic cell, and the electrostatic machine. Without such endeavors and the evolution of associated instrumentation, initially of purely scientific interest, most of the investigations that lead to the basic equations of electromagnetism would have been missed. ... We would have been deprived of electromagnetic machinery as well as knowledge of electromagnetic waves.

- Frederick Seitz

source: Frederick Seitz (2012). “The Science Matrix: The Journey, Travails, Triumphs”, p.14, Springer Science & Business Media

topic: Knowledge, Science, Cells, Instrumentation, Electromagnetic Waves