"It is as impossible for an aggregation of……" — Robert Boyle
"It is as impossible for an aggregation of finites to comprehend or exhaust one infinite as it is for the greater number of mathematic points to amount to or constitute a body."
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Robert Boyle
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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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More Aggregation Quotes
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Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist,…
— Annie Besant
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Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really…
— Unknown Author
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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an…
— Mark Twain
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In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are…
— James F. Cooper
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Henry Blodget does occasionally have a new idea. If you're making a point about aggregation or the emptiness of modern…
— Nick Denton
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The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.
— Thomas Sowell
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The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten…
— Bill Keller
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The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.
— William Graham Sumner
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We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital,…
— William Graham Sumner
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Soon my companions were lost to my sight behind the mountain ridge in my rear, which still seemed ever retreating…
— Henry David Thoreau
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