Science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.

-Barzun,Jacques
  Science, The Glorious Entertainment.

But Fonstein belonged to an even more advanced category†their aim is to convert weaknesses and secrets into burnable energy. A first-class man subsists on the matter he destroys, just as the stars do.

-Bellow, Saul
  Something To Remember Me By,'The Bellarosa Connection'.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

-Blake,William
  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,'The Argument'.

Energy is Eternal Delight.

-Blake,William
  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,'The Voice of the Devil'.

   Education is the taming or demonstration of the soul's raw passionsönot suppressing them or excising them, whichwould deprivethesoul of its energyöbutforming and informing them as art.

-Bloom, Allan
  The Closing of the American Mind.

It is only when you get to see and realize what India isöthat she is the strength and the greatness of Englandöthat you feel that every nerve a man may strain, every energy he may put forward, cannot be devoted to a nobler purpose than keeping tight the cords that hold India to ourselves.

-Curzon (of Kedleston), Lord George Nathaniel
  Speech at Southport,15 May.

Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.

-Gershwin, George
Quoted in D Morgenstern Composers on Music (1958).

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

-Greer, Germaine
  In the NewYork Times, 24 Mar.

At what time does the dissipation of energy begin?

-Kelvin,WilliamThomson, 1st Baron
When his wife proposed an afternoon walk. Quoted in  A Fleming Memories of a Scientific Life (1934).

Force is the same throughout and the whole is in every part of it. Force is a spiritual power, an invisible energy which isimparted by violence from without toall bodies out of their natural balance.

-Leonardo daVinci
Quoted in  Jean-Paul Richter (ed)  The Literary  Works of Leonardo da Vinci (1939).

Morally, spiritually, we are fettered. What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before. To call such activity progress is utter delusion.

-Miller, Henry Valentine
  The World of Sex.

The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.

-More, SirThomas
  Utopia (English translation1556), bk.2.

In the lotus position at her yoga class she managed to exude energy, and her attempts at Transcendental Meditation had been likened to a pressure-cooker on simmer.

-Sharpe,Tom (Thomas Ridley)
  Wilt, ch.1.

History is hard to know†but†it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the timeöand which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

-Thompson, Hunter S(tockton)
Fear and Loathing in LasVegas, ch.8.

To a considerable degree science consists in originating the maximum amount of information with the minimum expenditure of energy.

-Wilson, Edward O(sborne)
  Biophilia.

I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven Was blowing on my body, felt within A correspondent breeze, that gently moved With quickening virtue, but is now become A tempest, a redundant energy, Vexing its own creation.

-Wordsworth,William
^1805  The Prelude, bk.1, l.33^8 (published1850).