From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
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.
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Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
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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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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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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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God is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
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Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
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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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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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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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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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Even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.
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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 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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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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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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