Electricity Quotes
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“Electrical engineering”
“To put a girdle round about the world.”
“Without electricity, there can be no art.”
“Eripuit cælo fulmen, mox sceptra tyrannis.”
“Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound.”
“I'll put a girdle round about the earth
In forty minutes.”
“And fire a mine in China, here
With sympathetic gunpowder.”
“We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.”
“Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say "It lightens."”
“An ideal's love-fraught, imperious call
That bids the spheres become articulate.”
“And stoic Franklin's energetic shade
Robed in the lightnings which his hand allay'd.”
“Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul,
And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.”
“Wikipedia: Electricity”
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“While Franklin's quiet memory climbs to heaven,
Calming the lightning which he thence hath riven.”
“Go hug your girlfriend! Or if you don't have any, go find one! You won't find the meaning of life with electricity!”
“A million hearts here wait our call,
All naked to our distant speech—
I wish that I could ring them all
And have some welcome news for each.”
“But matchless Franklin! What a few
Can hope to rival such as you.
Who seized from kings their sceptred pride
And turned the lightning's darts aside.”
“Stretches, for leagues and leagues, the Wire,
A hidden path for a Child of Fire—
Over its silent spaces sent,
Swifter than Ariel ever went,
From continent to continent.”
“Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre.”