Occupation: Physicist Birth: June 12, 1851 Death: August 22, 1940
..if a special geometry has to be invented in order to account for a falling apple, even Newton might be appalled at the complications which would en….
Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is..
In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistica….
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 ….
The conception of Godhead formed by some devout philosophers and mystics has quite rightly been so immeasurably vast, though still assuredly utterly ….
Death is the end of a stage, not the end of the journey. The road stretches on beyond our comprehension..
Men of Science would do well to talk plain English. The most abstruse questions can very well be discussed in our own tongue ... I make a particular ….
We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism….
The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attrib….
Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure..
But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter..
Matter moves, but Ether is strained..
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….
The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but t….
The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest a….
Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossib….
Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else..
Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence..
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..
The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without….
Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interacti….