Oliver Joseph Lodge
Oliver Joseph Lodge
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, FRSwas a British physicist and writer involved in the development of, and holder of key patents for, radio. He identified electromagnetic radiation independent of Hertz' proof and at his 1894 Royal Institution lectures, Lodge demonstrated an early radio wave detector he named the "coherer". In 1898 he was awarded the "syntonic"patent by the United States Patent Office. Lodge was Principal of the University of Birmingham from 1900 to 1920...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth12 June 1851
Oliver Joseph Lodge quotes about
american-journalist communication form inevitable largely mechanical merely whether
We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
absolutely american-journalist convinced experience occasional physical produce
Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.
death fear word
Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.
american-journalist considered expressed form life terms
Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.
american-journalist becomes intelligence medium
In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.
american-journalist anxious fits hypothesis intelligence simplest
The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.
according american-journalist amount best cases medium state varies
The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.
death definitely freed injured maintain mean mere rather
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.