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 Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
The least unhappy persons do, in so fickle and so tempestuous a sea as this world, meet with many more either cross winds or… — Robert Boyle Copy Share
... even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed. — Robert Boyle Copy Share
And first, it seems not at all probable, That if the Omniscient Author of Nature knew that the study of his Works did really… — Robert Boyle Copy Share
The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our… — Robert Boyle Copy Share
Divers things we agree to be knowledge, which yet are so uneasy to be satisfactorily understood by our imperfect intellects, that let them be… — Robert Boyle Copy Share
Since a few minutes can turn the healthiest bodies into breathless carcasses, and put those very things which we had principally relied on into… — Robert Boyle Copy Share
I consider then, that generally speaking, to render a reason of an effect or Phaenomenon, is to deduce It from something else in Nature… — Robert Boyle Copy Share
As to the freeness or unmeritedness of Gods love, we need but consider that we so little could at first deserve his love, that… — Robert Boyle Copy Share
The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior… — Robert Boyle Copy Share
Let there be an admiration of those divine attributes and prerogatives for whose manifesting he was pleased to construct this vast fabric. — Robert Boyle Copy Share
God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it. — Robert Boyle Copy Share
Divers of Hermetic Books have such involv'd Obscuritys that they may justly be compar'd to Riddles written in Cyphers. For after a Man has… — Robert Boyle Copy Share
Darkness that here surrounded our purblind understanding will vanish at the dawning of eternal day. — Robert Boyle Copy Share
