Robert Boyle Short Quotes

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Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.

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Arithmetic and geometry, those wings on which the astronomer soars as high as heaven.

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Even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.

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I shall take leave to think the word, rather of the practice of the men than of the book of God.

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He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.

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In my laboratory... I find that water of Lethe which causes that I forget everything but the joy of making experiments.

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He that condescended so far, and stooped so low, to invite and bring us to heaven, will not refuse us a gracious reception there.

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Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry.

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It is one thing to be able to help nature to produce things, and another thing to understand well the nature of the things produc'd.

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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.

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It is not strange to me that persons of the fair sex should like, in all things about them, the handsomeness for which they find themselves most liked.

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Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due con-templation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal beauty.

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Those distinct substances, which concretes generally either afford, or are made up of, may, without very much inconvenience, be called the elements or principles of them.

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Mathematicks may help the naturalist, both to frame hypotheses, and to judge of those that are proposed to them, especially such as relate to mathematical subjects in conjunction with others.

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