Robert Boyle

Experiments are the only safe guides in natural philosophy.

The knowledge of nature is the knowledge of God's workmanship.

It is a grand mistake to think that the world was made for man.

I distinguish between the corpuscular philosophy, as it is a part of the speculative, and as it is a part of the practical, naturalist.

The best way to advance natural philosophy is to mind it.

The world is God's epistle to mankind.

I am not so much in love with my own opinions as to ignore what others may think of them.

The chymists are like those who, having seen a clock taken to pieces, and the wheels and other parts laid by themselves, think they sufficiently understand the whole.

To love God and to serve Him is the highest perfection of human nature.

The contemplation of the works of God should beget in us a reverence for His wisdom and power.

The study of nature is a perpetual feast to a rational mind.

I have often observed that the most productive experiments are the simplest.

He that would make a real progress in knowledge, must dedicate his age as well as youth, the later growth as well as the first fruits, at the altar of truth.

The air's spring is the cause of its elasticity.

Philosophy is the study of the works of God, and theology is the study of the word of God.

We must not judge of the causes from which things proceed by the ends to which they tend.

The atomical philosophy teaches that all bodies are composed of minute, insensible particles.

The vulgar think that everything is done by occult qualities, but the philosopher by manifest and mechanical causes.

The great book of nature is open to all, but few can read it.

A good hypothesis is that which doth not only suppose, but also prove.