In 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 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 BOYLESound consists of an undulating motion of the air.
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 BOYLEOur 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 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 BOYLEThe 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 BOYLEThere is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
ROBERT BOYLEIn the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.
ROBERT BOYLENature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
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 BOYLEGod is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
ROBERT BOYLEIt 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 BOYLEHe whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.
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 BOYLEGod would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
ROBERT BOYLEFrom a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
ROBERT BOYLE