"... even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed."
— Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
"Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe."
— Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
"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."
— Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
"There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought."
— Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
"He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith."
— Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
"Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day."
— Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
"It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning."
— Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
"In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part."
— Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
"And let me adde, that he that throughly understands the nature of Ferments and Fermentations, shall probably be much better able than he that Ignores them, to give a fair account of divers Phænomena of severall diseases (as well Feavers and others) which will perhaps be never throughly understood, without an insight into the doctrine of Fermentation."
— Robert Boyle (1627-1691)