Robert Boyle

1627–1691 · Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor

Topics: learning, science

• Those hypotheses do not a little hinder the progress of Humane knowledge, that introduce Morals and Politicks into the Explications of Corporeal Nature, where all things are indeed transacted according to Laws Mechanical.

  — Robert Boyle

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

  — Robert Boyle