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Oliver 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.


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Death is the end of a stage, not the end of the journey. The road stretches on beyond our comprehension.

Death is the end of a stage, not the end of the journey. The road stretches on beyond our comprehension.



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A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it.



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Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.



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.



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Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.



Matter moves, but Ether is strained.

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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.



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.



There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.

There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.



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.





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