25 Quotes by William Gilbert

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

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.

Philosophy is for the few.

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

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

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.

Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.

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.

Humor is a drug which it’s the fashion to abuse.