William Gilbert quotes:

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.

Philosophy is for the few.

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

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

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.

O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!

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.

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