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.

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

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.

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

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