Robert Boyle

“There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.”

“The book of nature is a fine and large piece of tapestry rolled up, which we are not able to see all at once, but must be content to wait for the discovery of its beauty.”

“Nature always looks serene and smiling.”

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

“Our Saviour would love at no less rate than death; and from the super-eminent greatness of his love, we may learn the greatness of our danger.”

“Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.”

“He that condescended so far as to write a Book for us, hath in that Book given us the Rules of interpreting it.”

“From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.”

“As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.”

“I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.”

“God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.”

“It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chemists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with each other's conceptions.”

“In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.”

“The veneration, wherewith men are imbued for what they call nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the empire of man over the inferior creatures of God.”

“The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.”