Robert Boyle

The works of God are not like the tricks of jugglers, or the secrets of craftsmen, which are not to be looked into.

It is a great impediment to the advancement of knowledge that men are often more fond of the opinions they have already embraced, than of the truth itself.

The true natural philosopher is a servant of God.

To have a right conception of nature, we must consider it as a system of bodies moved according to mechanical laws.

The first step towards wisdom is to know that we are ignorant.

Experiments may be compared to the letters of the alphabet; a single one may be insignificant, but together they can spell out the great words of nature.

The more we know of the creation, the more we should admire the Creator.

In the examination of bodies, we must not rest in the superficial appearances, but penetrate into their inward structure.

The laws of motion are the foundation of all natural philosophy.

He that would make a solid progress in the study of nature must be content to begin with the simplest things.

The variety of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the threads whereby they are interwoven so intricate, that the whole is a labyrinth.

The chymical principles are not the first and most simple principles of mixt bodies, but rather the last results of analysis.

To understand the nature of a thing, we must consider what it does, and what it suffers.

The world is a great laboratory, in which all sorts of experiments are constantly being performed.

The love of truth is the principal part of human perfection.

We see but a part of the chain, the continuity whereof is known only to the Almighty.

The aim of natural philosophy is to discover the laws by which the Creator governs the world.