God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
ROBERT BOYLEDarkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
More Robert Boyle Quotes
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From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.
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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 is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
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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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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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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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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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Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.
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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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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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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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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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As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men’s native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.
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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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