Quotes About Aether

#1. A diet of rations etched his figure, and the sea air and sun peeled back a layer of his essence ... It's as if he's passed through some cloud of aether, and he's come back to us with the outer reaches of the universe still clinging to him.

Adam McOmber

#2. There are a thousand ways of inhabiting it, but the aether, that in-between, is always what it is; and ghosts, spirits, the souls of lucid dreamers squeeze past each other in complex asomatic ecology. Who better to close in on Wati the bodiless subversive than bodiless forces of the law?

China Mieville

#3. And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there ... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

Ezra Pound

#4. But if there was a heaven this is what it would have felt like. Touching the aether with my bare hands I could never have anticipated this, not from him

Samantha Shannon

#5. The drunk and the maimed both are dragged forward out of the arena like a boneless Christ, one man under each arm, feet dragging, eyes on the aether.

David Foster Wallace

#6. Our lifelines will meet only when the aether sees fit. That may not be often. It can never to always.

Samantha Shannon

#7. The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of the universe. Discredited and discarded by Einstein, the aether is now making a Nixonian comeback. It's really the vacuum, but burdened by theoretical, ghostly particles.

Leon M. Lederman

#8. Time has come to reconsider the existence of aether in space due to recent developments in science on existence of dark energy in space.

Devinder Kumar Dhiman

#9. My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether ...

Nikola Tesla

#10. He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light die away; when the stars, one by one, tremble through aether, and are reflected on the dark mirror of the waters; that hour, which, of all others, inspires the mind with pensive tenderness, and often elevates it to sublime contemplation.

Ann Radcliffe

#11. I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel.

Samantha Shannon

#12. There is no space without aether, and no aether which does not occupy space.

Arthur Eddington

#13. In the aether I appear in fiery forms, And in the aer I sit in a silvery chariot; earth reigns in my black brood of puppies.

Porphyry

#14. Tapping into the aether, well, it was like coming home at the end of the day and finally being able to take a bra off.
It was that good.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#15. ...great eager mists flock to heaven laden with lore, and oceanward eyes on the rocks see only a mystic whiteness, as if the cliff's rim were the rim of all earth, and the solemn bells of buoys tolled free in the aether of faery.

H.P. Lovecraft

#16. Each Well was linked to one of the five elements: Aether, Earth, Water, Wind, or Fire.

Susan Dennard

#17. When one begins to philosophize one must be first a Spinozist. The soul must bathe itself in the aether of this single substance, in
which everything one has held dear is submerged.

Hegel G W F

#18. The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy aether knoweth what love is." The Universe, too, loves to create whatsoever is destined to be made.

Marcus Aurelius

#19. He is in me, and I in Him! Mine is the crystal radiance That filleth aether to the brim Wherein all stars and suns may dance. I am the beautiful and glad, Rejoicing in the golden day.

Aleister Crowley

#20. She'd survived the outside. She'd survived the Aether and cannibals and wolves. She knew how to love now, and how to let go. Whatever came next, she would survive it, too

Veronica Rossi

#21. Just as we were misled into untenable ideas of the aether through trusting to an analogy with the material ocean, so we have been misled into untenable ideas of the attributes of the microscopic elements of world-structure through trusting to analogy with gross particles.

Arthur Stanley Eddington

#22. Stoics held that material objects alone existed; but immanent in the material universe was a spiritual force which acted through them, manifesting itself under many forms, as fire, aether, spirit, soul, reason, the ruling principle.

Marcus Aurelius

#23. In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to undulate'."

Arthur Eddington

#24. One does not know yet whether Christ was
God or the Devil -
Buddha is more reassuring.

Allen Ginsberg

#25. Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

Ugo Betti

#26. Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,
making us think of funnier and funnier things.

Brenda Ueland

#27. If there's unemployment, having the government help reduce that unemployment, increase employment directly is a pretty good idea. It's not driving out competition; it's not crowding out.

Jeremy Grantham

#28. I fully understand that not all of the companies will succeed and that there will be losses along the way, but this is very much the norm with early stage investment.

Andy Murray

#29. I would rather die and be reborn and see the sun again, than to live to the end of the world without daylight.

Cassandra Clare

#30. I started as a mommy blogger, and it's been really great.

Constance Marie

#31. Some of them she had seen for four years without exchanging a word. But that was how high school worked; it issued a verdict and you behaved accordingly.

Mitch Albom