God is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
ROBERT BOYLEHe whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.
More Robert Boyle Quotes
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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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God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
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Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
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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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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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He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.
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Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
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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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From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
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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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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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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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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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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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