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Oliver Lodge Biography

Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, FRS (12 June 1851 – 22 August 1940) was 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 ("The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors"), Lodge demonstrated an early radio wave detector he named the "coherer". In 1898 he was awarded the "syntonic" (or tuning) patent by the United States Patent Office. Lodge was Principal of the University of Birmingham from 1900 to 1920.

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But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.

Although, Arrangements, Energy, Life, Life Is, Matter

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.

Broads, Impossible, Invincible, Occur, Person, Prejudice

In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

Stronger, May, Cases, Medium, Become, Demonstration

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

Comprehension, Death, Ends, Journey, Road

Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

Energy, Form, Life, Term, Terms

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.

Personality, Able, Facts, Intelligence, Fits, Communicate

The discovery which has been pointed to by theory is always one of profound interest and importance, but it is usually the close and crown of a long and fruitful period, whereas the discovery which comes as a puzzle and surprise usually marks a fresh epoch and opens a new chapter in science.

Chapter, Discovery, Long, Profound, Science, Theory

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.

Character, Communication, Determined, Inevitable, Largely, Mechanical

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.

Energy, Life, Matter, Science, Transcends

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.

Experience, Matter, Results, Survival, Way

If the 'Principle of Relativity' in an extreme sense establishes itself, it seems as if even Time would become discontinuous and be supplied in atoms, as money is doled out in pence or centimes instead of continuously;-in which case our customary existence will turn out to be no more really continuous than the events on a kinematograph screen;-while that great agent of continuity, the Ether of Space, will be relegated to the museum of historical curiosities.

Time, Science, Space, Centimes, Agent, Discontinuous

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

Experts, Felt, Matter, May, Properties

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

Mean, Water, Existence, Probably, Apprehending

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

Body, Death, Existence, Extinction, Soul

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

Birth, Death, Fear, Word