William Gilbert Quotes

• If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

  William Gilbert

  Success, Blow, Wish

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• Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.

  William Gilbert

  Book, Looks

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• The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body.

  William Gilbert

  Science, Soul, Body

  William Gilbert (1958). “De Magnete”, p.308, Courier Corporation

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• You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

  William Gilbert

  Ideas, Inferiority, Littles

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• Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.

  William Gilbert

  Fashion, Humorous, Drug

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• The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.

  William Gilbert

  Science, Names, Growth

  William Gilbert (2015). “On The Magnet”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• A lodestone is a wonderful thing in very many experiments, and like living things. And one of its remarkable virtues in that which the ancients considered to be a living soul in the sky, in the globes and in the stars, in the sun and in the moon.

  William Gilbert

  Life, Stars, Science

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• O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!

  William Gilbert

  Crazy, Science, Mind

  William Gilbert (2015). “On The Magnet”, p.79, Lulu.com

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• The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

  William Gilbert

  War, House, Peers

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• I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.

  William Gilbert

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Philosophy is for the few.

  William Gilbert

  Philosophy

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