Louis Kahn Quotes

Khadi is the sun of the village solar system.

The sun is the source of all energy on planet Earth and we cannot experiment with our only energy source.

The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.

In what then does real power consist? The answer is short and plain—in property.

…property in fact generally confers power, though the possessor of it may not have much more wit than a mole or a mugwash…

Sun is the reason And the world it will bloom 'Cause sun lights the sky And the sun lights the moon

Today, in directly harnessing the power of the Sun, we're taking the energy that God gave us, the most renewable energy that we will ever see, and using it to replace our dwindling supplies of fossil fuels.

We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun, you don't have to do anything, it just works. It shows up every day.

You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out.

Owning a great golf course gives you great power.

The only thing that really scales up apart from nuclear is solar power from other people's deserts.

I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.

Since Sunrun introduced solar as a service in 2007, it has become the preferred way for consumers to go solar in the nation's top solar markets. Sunrun has deployed more than $2 billion in solar systems and has raised more than $300 million in equity capital.

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

There will be no place that the sun will shine that will not be ours.

The fact that there simply is 5,000 times more sun power than our consumption needs makes me very optimistic. It's a fantastic resource. We have the ingenuity to send man to the moon, so we definitively have the ingenuity to tap the sun's resources…. The biggest challenge [for solar power] is escaping from the economic effects of vendor lock-in where large investments in nuclear and traditional energy sources keep us 'locked-in' to feeding monsters that will bring us down an economic black hole.

Photovoltaics are a great technology for certain applications, and, in fact, we invest in photovoltaic technologies. But they're not good substitutes for grid electricity.

Solar growth will support landowners to derive income and solar industry to build their business.

I literally have a private jet on call at all times.

(On the energy radiated by the Sun) It's four hundred million million million million watts. That is a million times the power consumption of the United States every year, radiated in one second, and we worked that out by using some water, a thermometer, a tin, and an umbrella. And that's why I love physics.

I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.

The sun machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party.

The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.