William Gilbert famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Blow #Wish #World
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
You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.
-- William Gilbert

#Ideas #Inferiority #Littles
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
Philosophy is for the few.
-- William Gilbert

#Philosophy
The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
-- William Gilbert

#War #House #Peers
Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.
-- William Gilbert

#Fashion #Drug #Abuse
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 #Moon
The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.
-- William Gilbert

#Names #Grew #Observation
I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.
-- William Gilbert

#Sea #Fishing #Rivers

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