Even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.
ROBERT BOYLEEven when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.
ROBERT BOYLEAs 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 BOYLEThe 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 BOYLENature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
ROBERT BOYLEIn an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part.
ROBERT BOYLEHe that condescended so far, and stooped so low, to invite and bring us to heaven, will not refuse us a gracious reception there.
ROBERT BOYLEI 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 BOYLEFrom a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
ROBERT BOYLEGod may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.
ROBERT BOYLEGod is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
ROBERT BOYLEThe 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.
ROBERT BOYLEHe whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.
ROBERT BOYLEThe veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures of God. For many have not only look’d upon it, as an impossible thing to compass, but as something impious to attempt.
ROBERT BOYLEHe that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.
ROBERT BOYLEIn the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.
ROBERT BOYLEWell, 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 BOYLE