William Gilbert quotes
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“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.”
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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 GilbertSource : William Gilbert (2015). “On The Magnet”, p.79, Lulu.com
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“You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.”
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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 GilbertSource : William Gilbert (1958). “De Magnete”, p.308, Courier Corporation
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“The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.”
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“Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.”
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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.”
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“The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.”
-- William GilbertSource : William Gilbert (2015). “On The Magnet”, p.20, Lulu.com
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“I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.”
-- William Gilbert
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