Top 11 Quotes by 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.

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

Success, Blow, Wish

Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.

William Gilbert

Book, Looks

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

Science, Soul, Body

William Gilbert (1958). “De Magnete”, p.308, Courier Corporation

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

William Gilbert

Ideas, Inferiority, Littles

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

William Gilbert

Fashion, Humorous, Drug

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

William Gilbert

Science, Names, Growth

William Gilbert (2015). “On The Magnet”, p.20, Lulu.com

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

Life, Stars, Science