Philosophy is for the few. William Gilbert More Quotes by William Gilbert More Quotes From William Gilbert 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 success You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it. William Gilbert inferiority littles ideas Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves. William Gilbert book looks The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well. William Gilbert peers house war Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse. William Gilbert drug fashion humorous The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew. William Gilbert growth names science I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever. William Gilbert fishing sea lakes 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 stars life science 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 body soul science 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 mind science My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering. William Gilbert help born family pride Man is nature's sole mistake. William Gilbert man sole nature mistake No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast. William Gilbert think beast opinion dirty When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody. William Gilbert then anybody somebody everyone We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely. William Gilbert will never you fear He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist. William Gilbert methodist morals he manners I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. William Gilbert thought myself politics thinking And I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. William Gilbert never thought myself thinking In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort. William Gilbert hidden opinions things stronger
