I look upon experimental truths as matters of great concernment to mankind. — 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 Image
... even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed. — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
And first, it seems not at all probable, That if the Omniscient Author of Nature knew that the study of his Works did really tend to make Men disbelieve his Being or Attributes, he would have given Men so many Invitations, and almost Necessities, to study and contemplate the Nature of his Creatures: Of these Invitations divers have been mention'd… — 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 Image
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 Image
Since a few minutes can turn the healthiest bodies into breathless carcasses, and put those very things which we had principally relied on into the hands of our enemies, it were little less than madness to repose a distrustless trust in these transitory possessions or treacherous advantages which we enjoy but by so fickle a tenure. No; we must never… — 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 more known than it self, and that consequently there may be divers kinds of Degrees of Explication of the same thing. For although such Explications be the most satisfactory to the Understanding, wherein 'tis shewn how… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
