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Nature Quotes by Robert Boyle
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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),…
- 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…
- Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
- 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…
- 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…
- That there is a Spring, or Elastical power in the Air we live in. By which ελατνρ [elater] or Spring of the Air, that which…
- 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…
- 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…
- The main thing that induces me to question the safeness of the vulgar methodus medendi in many cases is the consideration of the nature of…
- There is scarce anything that nature has made, or that men do suffer, whence the devout reflector cannot take an occasion of an aspiring meditation.
More Nature Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle