Camille Flammarion Quotes

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?

Thinking is movement confined to the brain

One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning.

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Sometimes, I believe I actually see the wheels in my brain turning.

That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regards to logic or chronological sequence.

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

Doing is very good, but that comes from thinking. Little manifestations of energy through the muscles are called work. But where there is no thought, there will be no work. Fill the brain, therefore, with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

Nicola Tesla didn't say, 'I have to make wireless electricity!' The brain does not work that way.

When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back.

If it is mind that we are searching the brain, then we are supposing the brain to be much more than a telephone-exchange. We are supposing it to be a telephone-exchange along with subscribers as well.

Within the book and volume of thy brain.

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try.

Many quantum physics are realizing or hypothesizing that consciousness is not a byproduct of evolution as has been suggested. Or for that matter, an expression of our brains, although it expresses itself through our brains. But consciousness is the common ground of existence that ultimately differentiates into space, time, energy, information and matter. And the same consciousness is responsible for our thoughts, for our emotions and feelings, for our behaviors, for our personal relationships, for our social interactions, for the environments that we find ourselves in, and for our biology.