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title: "2 Book Nature Quotes By Robert Boyle"
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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-boyle/i-am-not-ambitious-to-appear-a-man-of-letters-i-could-be-content-the/)

[Robert Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-boyle/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-boyle/the-book-of-nature-is-a-fine-and-large-piece-of-tapestry-rolled-up/)

[Robert Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-boyle/)

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## More by Robert Boyle

> [The least unhappy persons do, in so fickle and so tempestuous a sea as this world, meet with many more either cross winds or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-boyle/the-least-unhappy-persons-do-in-so-fickle-and-so-tempestuous-a-sea-as/)

[Robert Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-boyle/)

> [He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-boyle/he-whose-faith-never-doubted-may-justly-doubt-of-his-faith/)

[Robert Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-boyle/)

> [... even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-boyle/even-when-we-find-not-what-we-seek-we-find-something-as-well-worth/)

[Robert Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-boyle/)

> [And first, it seems not at all probable, That if the Omniscient Author of Nature knew that the study of his Works did really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-boyle/and-first-it-seems-not-at-all-probable-that-if-the-omniscient-author/)

[Robert Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-boyle/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-boyle/the-gospel-comprises-indeed-and-unfolds-the-whole-mystery-of-man-s/)

[Robert Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-boyle/)

> [Divers things we agree to be knowledge, which yet are so uneasy to be satisfactorily understood by our imperfect intellects, that let them be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-boyle/divers-things-we-agree-to-be-knowledge-which-yet-are-so-uneasy-to-be/)

[Robert Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-boyle/)

> [Since a few minutes can turn the healthiest bodies into breathless carcasses, and put those very things which we had principally relied on into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-boyle/since-a-few-minutes-can-turn-the-healthiest-bodies-into-breathless/)

[Robert Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-boyle/)

> [Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-boyle/nature-always-looks-out-for-the-preservation-of-the-universe/)

[Robert Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-boyle/)

> [I consider then, that generally speaking, to render a reason of an effect or Phaenomenon, is to deduce It from something else in Nature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-boyle/i-consider-then-that-generally-speaking-to-render-a-reason-of-an/)

[Robert Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-boyle/)

> [As to the freeness or unmeritedness of Gods love, we need but consider that we so little could at first deserve his love, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-boyle/as-to-the-freeness-or-unmeritedness-of-gods-love-we-need-but-consider/)

[Robert Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-boyle/)

> [The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-boyle/the-veneration-wherewith-men-are-imbued-for-what-they-call-nature-has/)

[Robert Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-boyle/)

> [Let there be an admiration of those divine attributes and prerogatives for whose manifesting he was pleased to construct this vast fabric.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-boyle/let-there-be-an-admiration-of-those-divine-attributes-and/)

[Robert Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-boyle/)

> [God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-boyle/god-would-not-have-made-the-universe-as-it-is-unless-he-intended-us/)

[Robert Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-boyle/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-boyle/divers-of-hermetic-books-have-such-involv-d-obscuritys-that-they-may/)

[Robert Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-boyle/)

> [Darkness that here surrounded our purblind understanding will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-boyle/darkness-that-here-surrounded-our-purblind-understanding-will-vanish/)

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