There is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is altogether too uniform for direct apprehension. A deep-sea fish has probably no means of apprehending the existence of water, it is too uniformly immersed in it: and that is our condition in regard to the Ether.


Ether and Reality: A Series of Discourses on the Many Functions of the Ether of Space (1925)

Oliver Lodge Quotes

There is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is altogether too uniform for direct...

There is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is altogether too uniform for direct...

There is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is altogether too uniform for direct...

There is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is altogether too uniform for direct...