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Oliver Lodge was a renowned physicist known for his contributions to the fields of electromagnetism and radio communication. He was born on June 12, 1851, and passed away on August 22, 1940.

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Famous Oliver Lodge Quotes

“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.”

Facts Able Personality Fit Difficulty Communicate Anxious Hypothesis Simplest Surviving Straightforward Being Straightforward

Author:Oliver Lodge

“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.”

Ifs Life May Matter Science Energy Conservation

Book:Christopher: A Study in Human Personality

Source: Christopher: A Study in Human Personality

“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.”

Long Has Beens Science Interest Theory Periods Discovery Importance Mark Surprise Profound Chapters Crowns Puzzles Epoch

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“Matter moves, but Ether is strained.”

Matter Moving Science

Book:Continuity: The Presidential Address to the British Association for 1913

Source: Continuity: The Presidential Address to the British Association for 1913

“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.”

Knows Character Form Influence Communication Determined Inevitable Unconscious Mechanism Physiological

Book:Raymond Or Life And Death

Source: Raymond Or Life And Death

“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.”

Men Wells Particular Delight Tongue Appeals Troublesome Plain English

Author:Oliver Lodge

“A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it.”

Mean Water Existence Fishes

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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.”

Ifs Problem Might Order Fall Difficult Special Accounts Apples Geometry Newton Complication Difficult Problems

Author:Oliver Lodge

“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.”

Mean Science Water Existence Millions Greater Sea Conditions Direct Pressure Regard Instruments Fishes Uniforms Measurement Apprehension Measuring Deep Sea

Book:Ether and Reality: A Series of Discourses on the Many Functions of the Ether of Space

Source: Ether and Reality: A Series of Discourses on the Many Functions of the Ether of Space

“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.”

Humans Stills Reality Notion Philosopher Conception Inadequate

Author:Oliver Lodge

“But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.”

Matter Life Is Energy Arrangements

Book:Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of

Source: Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of

“Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.”

Soul Body Existence Extinction

Book:Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of

Source: Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of

“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.”

Way Matter Results Produce Survival Convinced Conclusion Interaction Occasional

Book:My Philosophy: Representing My Views on the Many Functions of the Ether of Space

Source: My Philosophy: Representing My Views on the Many Functions of the Ether of Space

“Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.”

Book:Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of

Source: Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of

“Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.”

Form Energy Term

Book:Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of

Source: Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of

“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.”

Different States Quality Cases Amount Mediums Vary Sophistication Different Times

Book:Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of

Source: Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of

“The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.”

Kind May Matter Felt Property Experts Imitation Differentiate

Book:Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of

Source: Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of

“In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.”

May Cases Stronger Mediums Demonstration Sophistication Communicators

Book:Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of

Source: Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of

“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.”

Persons Impossible Prejudice Conclusion Broads Invincible

Book:Past Years: An Autobiography

Source: Past Years: An Autobiography

“Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.”

Adventure Inevitable Foe Memorial Epitaph Headstone Gravestone Memorial Stone

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“Death is the end of a stage, not the end of the journey. The road stretches on beyond our comprehension.”

Ends Death Journey Stage Comprehension

Author:Oliver Lodge

“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.”

Source: Continuity: The Presidential Address to the British Association for 1913

“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.”

Should Hard Reason Effects Fashion Survival Sitting Series Convinced Strict Pipers

Author:Oliver Lodge

About the Author

Born: June 12, 1851
Died: August 22, 1940
Known for: Physicist
Quotes: 23

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