From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
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.
More Robert Boyle Quotes
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God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.
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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.
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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.
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Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.
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In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.
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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.
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He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.
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God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
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God is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
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He that condescended so far, and stooped so low, to invite and bring us to heaven, will not refuse us a gracious reception there.
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There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
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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.
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He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.
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Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.
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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.
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