Robert Boyle on beautiful
Robert Boyle28 quotes“The book of nature is a fine and large piece of tapestry rolled up, which we are not able to see all at once, but must be content to wait for the discovery of its beauty, and symmetry, little by little, as it graduallly comes to be more and more unfolded, or displayed.”
More from Robert Boyle
It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another’s learning.
Robert BoyleRobert Boyle He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.
Robert BoyleRobert Boyle Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry.
Robert BoyleRobert Boyle Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due con-templation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal beauty.
Robert BoyleRobert Boyle The inspired and expired air may be sometimes very useful, by condensing and cooling the blood that passeth through the lungs; I hold that the depuration of the blood in that passage, is not only one of the ordinary, but one of the principal uses of respiration.
Robert BoyleRobert Boyle I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.
Robert BoyleRobert Boyle God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
Robert BoyleRobert Boyle Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
Robert BoyleRobert Boyle God is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
Robert BoyleRobert Boyle He that condescended so far, and stooped so low, to invite and bring us to heaven, will not refuse us a gracious reception there.
Robert BoyleRobert Boyle Our Saviour would love at no less rate than death; and from the supereminent height of glory, stooped and debased Himself to the sufferance of the extremest of indignities, and sunk himself to the bottom of abjectness, to exalt our condition to the contrary extreme.
Robert BoyleRobert Boyle As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men’s native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.
Robert BoyleRobert Boyle It is not strange to me that persons of the fair sex should like, in all things about them, the handsomeness for which they find themselves most liked.
Robert BoyleRobert Boyle The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and think it but one remove from nothing.
Robert BoyleRobert Boyle He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.
Robert BoyleRobert Boyle Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.
Robert BoyleRobert Boyle
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ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on beautiful
I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.
Lana Del ReyLana Del Rey The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
Jim CarreyJim Carrey Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.
Coco ChanelCoco Chanel In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.
John MuirJohn Muir A girl has to have a beautiful smile, Beautiful eyes and she should have a good sense of humor. She should be honest, loving and trustworthy.
Justin BieberJustin Bieber You will be the beautiful prince you were always meant to be.
Uncle IrohUncle Iroh I feel good to know that they recognize the potential of reggae music. And they are exposing it to the world, letting the world hear how beautiful reggae music can be.
Peter ToshPeter Tosh
