Home / Authors / Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle Quotes

Philosopher

Robert Boyle, born on January 25, 1627, in Ireland and died on December 31, 1691 in England, was a renowned philosopher and scientist of the 17th century, considered one of the founders of modern chemistry. He advocated empiricism in philosophy and made significant contributions to the fields of chemistry, physics, and more.

Filter quotes by topic

All Science May Men Air Chemistry Bible Body Book Made Thinking Firsts Ifs Littles Looks Naturalist Nature Should Universe Wells World

Famous Robert Boyle Quotes

“God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.”

World May Ends Purpose Special Creation Admirable Framed

Author:Robert Boyle

“But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose), has recourse to the first Cause but for its general and ordinary Support and Influence, whereby it preserves Matter and Motion from Annihilation or Desition; and in explicating particular phenomena, considers onely the Size, Shape, Motion, (or want of it) Texture, and the resulting Qualities and Attributes of the small particles of Matter.”

Source: Boyle on Atheism

“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.”

Thinking Men World Should Book Letters Ambitious Scarce

Book: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.

Source: 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.