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Robert Boyle

(1627–1691) Physicist United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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Robert Boyle was a physicist from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, best known for The sceptical chymist; or, Chymico-physical doubts & paradoxes.

Quick Facts About Robert Boyle

Born: January 25, 1627
Died: December 31, 1691
Nationality: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Profession: Physicist
Notable works: The sceptical chymist; or, Chymico-physical doubts & paradoxes

About Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Robert Boyle · Page 4

To whet our longings for fruitive or experimental knowledge, it is reserved among the prerogatives of being in heaven, to know how…

Knowledge

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The main thing that induces me to question the safeness of the vulgar methodus medendi in many cases is the consideration of…

Kindness

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Such immense power, such unsearchable wisdom, and such exuberant goodness, as may justly ravish us to an amazement, rather than a base…

Wisdom

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It is fit for a man to know his own abilities and weaknesses, and not think himself obliged to imitate all that…

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The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of Gods own stamp.

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“The phaenomena afforded by trades, are a part of the history of nature, and therefore may both challenge the naturalist's curiosity and…

Childish

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As the moon, though darkened with spots, gives us a much greater light than the stars that sewn all-luminous, so do the…

Bible

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God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.

Atheism

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The having turned many to righteousness shall confer a starlike and immortal brightness.

Justice

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