William Gilbert Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.

William Gilbert

#3. 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

#4. We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.

William Gilbert

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

William Gilbert

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

William Gilbert

#7. 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

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

William Gilbert

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

William Gilbert

#10. He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

William Gilbert

#11. I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

William Gilbert

#12. 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

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

William Gilbert

#14. My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

William Gilbert

#15. Philosophy is for the few.

William Gilbert

#16. Man is nature's sole mistake.

William Gilbert