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It is not strange to me, that persons of the fairer sex should like, in all things about them, that handsomeness for which they find themselves most liked.

— Robert Boyle Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects (1665)

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He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.

I shall take leave to think the worse, rather of the practice of the men than of the book of God.

Some Considerations Touching the Style of the Holy Scriptures (1661)

Arithmetic and geometry, those wings on which the astronomer soars as high as heaven.

And first the Doctrine that all their Theory is grounded on, seems to me Inevident and undemonstrated, not to say precarious.

Of the Imperfection of The Chymist's Doctrine of Qualities (1675)

For it has been truly observed by a great philosopher, that truth does more easily emerge out of error than confusion.

A Proëmial Essay (1661)

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