"Darkness that here surrounded our purblind understanding will……" — Robert Boyle

"Darkness that here surrounded our purblind understanding will vanish at the dawning of eternal day."

— Robert Boyle

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65 Quotes by Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle has 65 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If the omniscient author of nature knew that the study of his works tends to make men disbelieve his Being…
Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors…
If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making…
And when with excellent Microscopes I discern in otherwise invisible Objects the Inimitable Subtlety of Nature's Curious Workmanship; And when,…
The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of…
But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where…
God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
The book of nature is a fine and large piece of tapestry rolled up, which we are not able to…
Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.
It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been…
I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events…
God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.

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Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and… — Billie Joe Armstrong
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I… — Kevin Bacon
I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into… — Kevin Bacon
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. — Edward Abbey
It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary.… — Saint Basil
Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. — Ezra Taft Benson
No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when… — Annie Besant
Education is the movement from darkness to light. — Allan Bloom
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which… — Emily Bronte
I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to… — Nicolas Cage
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness. — Julia Cameron

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