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.
ROBERT BOYLEI think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.
More Robert Boyle Quotes
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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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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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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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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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God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
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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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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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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 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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Even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.
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Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
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