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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.
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Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
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O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall…
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The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.
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We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think…
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A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours its heart…
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It seemed a place where heroes could fitly feast after victory, where weary harvesters could line up in scores along the table…
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Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its sourceFor, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to…
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The dimness of our intellectual eyes Aristotle fitly compares to those of an owl at noonday.
— Robert Boyle
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