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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Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
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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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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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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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Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.
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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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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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God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
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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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Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.
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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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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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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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He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.
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