Quotes About Electricity: Funny, Inspirational & About Love

Welcome to our blog post about quotes on electricity! Whether you’re an electrician, a science enthusiast or just someone who appreciates the power of electricity, you’ll find some great inspiration and humor in this collection of quotes. From famous scientists and inventors to comedians and poets, we’ve gathered a wide range of quotes that showcase the wonder and awe of electricity, as well as its role in our lives and relationships. So, plug in your devices, turn on the lights and get ready to be electrified by these funny, inspirational and love-themed quotes about electricity.

Electricity Quotes

The best quotes about electricity are the following:

Inspirational

• “Every age thinks it’s the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!” – Tom Stoppard
• “Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who, with their soul, encourages another person to be brave and true.” – Charles Dickens
• “Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.” – Napoleon Hill
• “Electricity can transform people’s lives, not just economically but also socially.” – Piyush Goyal
• “If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.” – Samuel Morse
• “Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.” – Maya Angelou
• “If we want to have clean electricity, grow food, manufacture goods, and get around responsibly, we have to understand what it will take to get there and we have to make it happen.” – Tatiana Schlossberg
• “Just as electricity transformed almost everything 100 years ago, today I actually have a hard time thinking of an industry that I don’t think AI will transform in the next several years.” –  Andrew Ng
• “It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative- whichever is running at the moment dominates my life.” – Sylvia Plath
• “Electricity is an example of a general-purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.” – Erik Brynjolfsson
• “I believe that access to electricity and light can radically improve people‚ lives.” – Olafur Eliasson
• “A smile costs less than electricity and gives more light.” – Scottish Proverb
• “When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.” – Martin Buber
• “Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.” – Gordon Parks
• “A slash of lightning electricity sizzles the power of storm.” – Haiku
• “Sometimes it feels like energy or electricity when it is moving in and through us, but spiritual power is really a distinctive kind of knowledge that is like the key that opens the door or the switch that starts the energy moving.” – Frank Fools Crow

Famous

• “Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.” – Willy Wonka
• “Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.” – Marshall McLuhan
• “There is a force more powerful than steam and electricity: the will.” – Fernán Caballero
• “You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.” – Marcel Duchamp
• “Without electricity, modern life would grind to a halt and the complexity of modern society is such that if you take out one or two little pieces of the jigsaw, the whole thing collapses.” – Lord Arbuthnot
• “People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they?” – Bill Gates
• “Freedom is never an achieved state – like electricity, we’ve got to keep generating it or the lights go out.” – Wayne LaPierre
• “Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.” – L. Frank Baum
• “Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else.” – Ambrose Bierce

Love

• “Love is the strongest medicine. It is more powerful than electricity.” – Neem Karoli Baba
• “Relationships are like electric current…. Wrong connection will give you shocks throughout of your life. But the right ones will light up your life.” – Unknown
• “What is soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.” – Ray Charles
• “Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” – Faulkner
• “She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.” – Holly Black
• “The body is the conduit; the soul is the copper wire; and the spirit is the electricity.” – Eugene Williams

Funny

• “I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.” – Edith Sitwell
• “Take a chance. The electric light bulb didn’t come from the continuous improvement of candles.” –  Blakely
• “Creativity is a lot like electricity – it takes some resistors to keep a current.” – Unknown
• “Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.” – Dave Barry
• “Electricity is really just organized lightning.” – George Carlin
• “I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.” – Elvis Presley
• “With great power comes great electricity bill.” – Unknown
• “It is not economical to go to bed early to save electricity if the result is twins.” – Chinese Proverb
• “Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.” – William Hiram Foulkes
• “All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.” – Unknown
• “If it weren’t for electricity, we’d all be watching television by candlelight.” – George Gobel
• “Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.” – Earl Wilson

By Thomas Edison

• “I shall make electricity so cheap that only the rich can afford to burn candles.”
• When a reporter asked, “How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?” Edison replied, “I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps.”
• “I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I had more years left.”
• “I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting, not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.”
• “In fact, I’ve come to the conclusion that I never did know anything about it [electricity]”
• “It was necessary to invent everything. Dynamos, regulators, meters, switches, fuses, fixtures, underground conductors with their necessary connecting boxes, and a host of other detail parts, even down to insulating tape.”

By Nicola Tesla

• “This planet, with all its appalling immensity, is to electric currents virtually no more than a small metal ball.”
• “If hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.”
• “We are now confident that electric and magnetic phenomena are attributable to ether, and we are perhaps justified in saying that the effects of static electricity are effects of ether under strain, and those of dynamic electricity and electromagnetism effects of ether in motion.”
• “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
• “Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.”
• “Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.”

By Benjamin Franklin

• “Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other.”
• “The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.”
• “If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified large glass jar, taken through his own body, will probably convince him.”
• “Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre.”