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.
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.
More Robert Boyle Quotes
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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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In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.
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From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
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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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Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
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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.
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God is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
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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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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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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 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.
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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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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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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.
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