black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.

Robert Boyle

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 BOYLE

Ambition Appearance Man Nature World
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.
ROBERT BOYLE

Chemistry Design Funny Luck Myself Philosophy See
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.
ROBERT BOYLE

Beautiful Book Content Display Nature Satisfaction See
In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.
ROBERT BOYLE

Book Ignorance Knowledge Learning Religious
Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.
ROBERT BOYLE

Motion Science Sound
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.
ROBERT BOYLE

Attempt Call Chance Creature God Impossible Man Nature Try
From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
ROBERT BOYLE

Himself Knowledge Work
God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.
ROBERT BOYLE

End Frame God Greatness Purpose World
God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
ROBERT BOYLE

Creation God Philosophy Understand Universe
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.
ROBERT BOYLE

Beauty Direction Love Mortal Passion Perfection
He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.
ROBERT BOYLE

Doubt Faith Himself
Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
ROBERT BOYLE

Nature Preservation Universe
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.
ROBERT BOYLE

Goodness Learning Myself Philosophy Understand
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.
ROBERT BOYLE

Biology Blood Body Inspirational Ordinary Principle Respiration Science
Even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.
ROBERT BOYLE

Deep Missing Philosophy Seek Worth
Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
ROBERT BOYLE

Darkness Day Death Forever Understand

I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Robert Boyle Quotes