Robert Boyle

find seek worth miss

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

— Robert Boyle (1627-1691)

nature preservation universe

"Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe."

— Robert Boyle (1627-1691)

sun men disposition children dying

"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)

invention thought book original inspiration

"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)

faith doubt

"He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith."

— Robert Boyle (1627-1691)

darkness understand eternity

"Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day."

— Robert Boyle (1627-1691)

science understanding multi-disciplinary

"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)

arch stone whole fabric part

"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)

fermentation disease

"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)