"I consider then, that generally speaking, to render……" — Robert Boyle
"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 known than it self, and that consequently there may be divers kinds of Degrees of Explication of the same thing. For although such Explications be the most satisfactory to the Understanding, wherein 'tis shewn how the effect is produc'd by the more primitive and Catholick Affection of Matter, namely bulk, shape and motion, yet are not these Explications to be despis'd, wherein particular effects are deduc'd from the more obvious and familiar Qualities or States of Bodies...For in the search after Natural Causes, every new measure of Discovery does both instinct and gratifie the Understanding."
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65 Quotes by Robert Boyle
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If the omniscient author of nature knew that the study of his works tends to make men disbelieve his Being…
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Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors…
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If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making…
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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,…
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The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events…
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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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