Robert Boyle Quotes
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If the omniscient author of nature knew that the study of his works tends to make men disbelieve his Being or Attributes, he would not…
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Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors indiscriminatly that abound with Sulphurous…
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If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making fixed bodies volatile, and volatile…
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And when with excellent Microscopes I discern in otherwise invisible Objects the Inimitable Subtlety of Nature's Curious Workmanship; And when, in a word, by the…
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The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures…
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But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose),…
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God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
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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…
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Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
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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…
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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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God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
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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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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 inspired and expired air may be sometimes very useful, by condensing and cooling the blood that passeth through the lungs; I hold that the…
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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…
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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…
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And let me adde, that he that throughly understands the nature of Ferments and Fermentations, shall probably be much better able than he that Ignores…
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That there is a Spring, or Elastical power in the Air we live in. By which ÎµÎ»Î±Ï„Î½Ï [elater] or Spring of the Air, that which…
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I look upon a good physician, not so properly as a servant to nature, as one, that is a counsellor and friendly assistant, who, in…
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