Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.

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

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.

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

Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.

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

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