Ambitious Quote by Robert Boyle

“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 book than that of nature.” quote by Robert Boyle — Download Open image

“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 book than that of nature.”

Robert Boyle

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And first, it seems not at all probable, That if the Omniscient Author of Nature knew that the study of his Works did really tend to make Men disbelieve his Being or Attributes, he would have given Men so many Invitations, and almost Necessities, to study and contemplate the Nature of his Creatures: Of these Invitations divers have been mention'd…

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Divers things we agree to be knowledge, which yet are so uneasy to be satisfactorily understood by our imperfect intellects, that let them be…

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Since a few minutes can turn the healthiest bodies into breathless carcasses, and put those very things which we had principally relied on into the hands of our enemies, it were little less than madness to repose a distrustless trust in these transitory possessions or treacherous advantages which we enjoy but by so fickle a tenure. No; we must never…

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Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.

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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…

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Let there be an admiration of those divine attributes and prerogatives for whose manifesting he was pleased to construct this vast fabric.

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