Luminiferous Ether Quotes & Sayings

It is my strong hope that an environment will be created in which both of our countries can cooperate for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons. — Yoshiro Mori

It appears, from all that precedes, reasonably certain that if there be any relative motion between the earth and the luminiferous ether, it must be small; quite small enough entirely to refute Fresnel's explanation of aberration. — Albert A. Michelson

The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: "the greater fool theory." Although by any conventional measure it is folly to pay thousands for a tulip bulb (or for that matter an Internet stock), as long as there is an even greater fool out there willing to pay even more, doing so is the most logical thing in the world. — Michael Pollan

I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you. — Thomas Harris

Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings. — Richard Holbrooke

Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more to the world than was generally believed by our ancestors. — Carl Sagan

All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether — Nikola Tesla

I would have to agree, that I'm probably more intense than Brian or Kurt, competitive because, I was always like this, always being that way, always real competitive. — Elvis Stojko

God is the Creator of all things. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer. — Leroy Hood

The learning curve is 'The Hobbit' is being shot in 3D. — Andy Serkis

When you're in the closet, you feel like the sky will fall down if anyone finds out. A lot of the fear is self-generated. — Jane Velez-Mitchell

UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only. — Ambrose Bierce

I'd do a show about garbagemen if it was good! — Cynthia Nixon

All perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, or tenuity beyond conception, filling all space, the akasha or luminiferous ether, which is acted upon by the life giving Prana or creative force, calling into existence, in never-ending cycles all things and phenomena. — Nikola Tesla

Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether. — Thomas Young

Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true. — Neville Goddard