Robert Boyle Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• And when with excellent Microscopes I discern in otherwise invisible Objects the Inimitable Subtlety of Nature's Curious Workmanship; And when, in a word, by the help of Anatomicall Knives, and the light of Chymicall Furnaces, I study the Book of Nature, and consult the Glosses of Aristotle, Epicurus, Paracelsus, Harvey, Helmont, and other learn'd Expositors of that instructive Volumne; I find my self oftentimes reduc'd to exclaim with the Psalmist, How manifold are thy works, O Lord? In wisdom hast thou made them all.

  Robert Boyle

  God, Nature, Book

• 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

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

• 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, and symmetry, little by little, as it graduallly comes to be more and more unfolded, or displayed.

  Robert Boyle

  Book, Discovery, Waiting

• 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

  Book, Men, Thinking

  Robert Boyle (1738). “The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq; Abridged, Methodized, and Disposed Under the General Heads of Physics, Statics, Pneumatics, Natural History, Chymistry, and Medicine. The Whole Illustrated with Notes, Containing the Improvements Made in the Several Parts of Natural and Experimental Knowledge Since His Time. In Three Volumes. By Peter Shaw, M.D.”, p.28

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