"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."

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

William Gilbert

#Science Quotes #Soul Quotes #Body Quotes

“No worries, Atticus. I will snarf surreptitiously. And I should get bacon, because my adverb was two syllables longer than yours, plus a bonus for alliteration." I grinned. "It's a deal. You're the best hound ever.”
“One creature's truth is another's lie. (Scroom of Strix Struma)”
“Hold ever before you the vision of the new heaven and new earth.”
“I really feel our job as actors is to find a human experience in the character. So, for me, genre comes second; it's about script and the emotional journey of that character. Genre definitely has an impact, but it has more of an impact on the way the character is expressed. We all have the same core emotions of love, jealousy, rage - it's just how they're expressed.”
“When you are absolutely, positively sure you know all there is to know about anything, you're as far from the truth as you will ever be...”
“Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.”
“Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being.”
“I always worked in institutions, I never had a restaurant of my own before, but I have opened over 30 hotels, restaurants and casinos. I understand what it takes to keep them running.”

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