Electricity

Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.
- William Hiram Foulkes

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.
- George Carlin

Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self- employment and artistic autonomy.
- Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964

Prudence and justice tell me that in electricity and steam there is more love for man than in chastity and abstinence from meat.
- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, 1860 - 1904

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as "candle making industry threatened".
- Newt Gingrich