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It is much more high and philosophical to discover things a priori than a posteriori. And therefore the Peripatetics have not been very solicitous to gather experiments to prove their doctrines, contenting themselves with a few only, to satisfy those that are not capable of a nobler conviction. And indeed they employ experiments rather to illustrate than to demonstrate their doctrines.

— Robert Boyle

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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.

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

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