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.
ROBERT BOYLESound consists of an undulating motion of the air.
More Robert Boyle Quotes
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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.
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I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.
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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.
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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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God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
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Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
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Even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.
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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.
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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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God is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
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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.
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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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He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.
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Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
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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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