Quotes by William Gilbert - Page 1

Philosophy is for the few.
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Man is nature's sole mistake.
William Gilbert / Physician
Mistake
Sole
Man
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Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.
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Drug
Fashion
Humorous
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When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
William Gilbert / Physician
Then
Somebody
Everyone
Anybody
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Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.
William Gilbert / Physician
Book
Looks
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We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.
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Fear Will Never
Hang
Politely
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He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.
William Gilbert / Physician
Manners
Methodist
Morals
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I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.
William Gilbert / Physician
Fishing
Lakes
Sea
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My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
William Gilbert / Physician
Pride
Inconceivable
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You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.
William Gilbert / Physician
Deserve
Ideas
Inferiority
Littles
No Idea
Opinion
Poor
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I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
William Gilbert / Physician
Politics
Party
Thinking
Myself Thinking Always
Politics Myself Always
Voted
Call
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The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.
William Gilbert / Physician
Science
Growth
Names
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The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
William Gilbert / Physician
War
House
Particular
Peers
Did
Throughout
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And I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
William Gilbert / Physician
Myself Thinking Always
Voted
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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
William Gilbert / Physician
Beast
Dirty
Higher
Opinion
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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 Gilbert / Physician
Science
Body
Soul
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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 Gilbert / Physician
Science
Crazy
Mind
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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.
William Gilbert / Physician
Success
Trust
Chance
Blow
Wish
Advance
Bound
Enhance
Trumpet
Merits
Stir
Stump
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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.
William Gilbert / Physician
Life
Science
Stars
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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 / Physician
Causes
Conjecture
Discovery
Experiments
Investigation
Philosophical
Secret
Stronger
Hidden
Obtained
Opinions
Probable
Reasons
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