Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
ROBERT BOYLENature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
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 BOYLEEven when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.
ROBERT BOYLEGod is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
ROBERT BOYLEIn the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.
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 BOYLEHe that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.
ROBERT BOYLEDarkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
ROBERT BOYLEIt 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 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 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 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 BOYLEFrom a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
ROBERT BOYLEExalt 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 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 BOYLEGod may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.
ROBERT BOYLE