Luminiferous Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether

Nikola Tesla

#4. 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

#5. Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether.

Thomas Young

#6. Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Joseph Joubert

#7. But Dick had come away for his soul's sake, and he began thinking about that. He had lost himself
he could not tell the hour when, or the day or the week, the month or the year.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.

Jennifer Donnelly

#9. Any way you cut it, I was stuck between a rock and a hard place. Or, more accurately, between a fang and a sharp place.

Jeaniene Frost

#10. I was once all by myself in a house on Fire Island. Where I compared the original cast recordings of two different versions of The Wild Party. A helicopter should have descended and taken me away to a gay penal colony. But of course, I was already there.

Paul Rudnick

#11. Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!

Lewis Carroll

#12. fucking thirty-year-old virgin.

Silver James

#13. Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature.

Luther Burbank

#14. If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

Evelyn Waugh