black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.

Robert Boyle

Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
ROBERT BOYLE

Nature Preservation Universe
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 BOYLE

Clothes Fabric Security Stone
The 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 BOYLE

Attempt Call Chance Creature God Impossible Man Nature Try
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 BOYLE

Age Beautiful Face Female Mindset Necessary Ruin
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 BOYLE

Condition Death Glory Love Ourselves Rate Suffering
From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
ROBERT BOYLE

Himself Knowledge Work
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.
ROBERT BOYLE

Beautiful Book Content Display Nature Satisfaction See
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 BOYLE

Goodness Learning Myself Philosophy Understand
The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of mans redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.
ROBERT BOYLE

Book Necessary Ourselves Religious
God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.
ROBERT BOYLE

End Frame God Greatness Purpose World
He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.
ROBERT BOYLE

Doubt Faith Himself
God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
ROBERT BOYLE

Creation God Philosophy Understand Universe
Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.
ROBERT BOYLE

Motion Science Sound
He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.
ROBERT BOYLE

Alone Goodness Man Perfection Place
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 BOYLE

Biology Blood Body Inspirational Ordinary Principle Respiration Science
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 BOYLE

Ambition Appearance Man Nature World

Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Robert Boyle Quotes