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.
ROBERT BOYLEOur 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.
More Robert Boyle Quotes
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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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God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
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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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In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.
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Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.
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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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Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
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God is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
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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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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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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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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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From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
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It is not strange to me that persons of the fair sex should like, in all things about them, the handsomeness for which they find themselves most liked.
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