Author: Oliver Joseph Lodge

Quotes

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

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

- Oliver Joseph Lodge

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

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

- Oliver Joseph Lodge

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.

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.

- Oliver Joseph Lodge

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

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

- Oliver Joseph Lodge

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

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

- Oliver Joseph Lodge

They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.

They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.

- Oliver Joseph Lodge

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

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

- Oliver Joseph Lodge

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