Robert Boyle

The true philosopher is one who is always ready to correct his mistakes.

I have always been more desirous to be just than to be popular.

The most valuable treasure is a good conscience.

I have always been more solicitous to deserve praise than to receive it.

The true wisdom consists in knowing what we do not know.

I have always been more desirous to be good than to be great.

The most important lesson that philosophy can teach us is to be humble.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am a stranger to the names of many chemical substances, and that I have not yet learned to distinguish them by their taste.

He that knows not the nature of the thing, knows not the nature of the name.

I confess I am not so much a friend to the multiplying of elements as some others are, who, by their own confession, have never yet been able to find one.

It is not enough to know the properties of things, but we must also know their causes.

I am not so much a friend to the multiplying of elements as some others are, who, by their own confession, have never yet been able to find one.

The knowledge of God's works is the noblest study.

God's works are so various and wonderful, that the more we search into them, the more we shall admire them.

The true end of our studies is to know God and to glorify Him.

The book of nature is a most excellent book, and ought to be diligently read.

To be a Christian is to be a lover of truth.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

The search for truth is the noblest exercise of the human mind.

Error is infinite, but truth is one.