Even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.
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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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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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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Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.
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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 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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God is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
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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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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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In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.
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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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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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Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
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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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He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.
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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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