The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.
Philosophy is for the few.
You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.
Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.
Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.
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.