"Philosophy is for the few." — William Gilbert
"Philosophy is for the few."
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William Gilbert
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12 Quotes by William Gilbert
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The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.
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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…
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A lodestone is a wonderful thing in very many experiments, and like living things. And one of its remarkable virtues…
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Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.
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The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
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The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is…
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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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O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of…
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We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.
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He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.
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And I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
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