Frases de Robert Boyle (26 citas)

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“Si el autor omnisciente de la naturaleza, supiera que el estudio de sus obras tiende a hacer que los hombres no crean en su Ser o atributos, no les habría dado tantas invitaciones para estudiar y contemplar la naturaleza.”

Robert Boyle

Fuente: Some considerations touching the usefulness of experimental philosophy (1663). Citado en: Peter Gay, The Enlightenment (1977), 140.

“Nunca se puede preparar uno suficientemente para la muerte. Otras acciones pueden ser repetidas, se pueden volver a intentar después de la primera vez. No es así con la muerte: aparece una sola vez y no hay posibilidad de repetirla para mejorarla.”

Robert Boyle

Fuente: El virtuoso cristiano.

“En primer lugar, encomiendo mi alma a Dios Todopoderoso, mi Creador, con la plena confianza de que todos mis pecados sean perdonados por los méritos y mediación de mi único Salvador Jesucristo.”

Robert Boyle

Fuente: Cartas testamentarias.

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“Me dejaré pensar la palabra, más en la práctica de los hombres que en el libro de Dios.”

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“Y podría añadir la confianza con que las personas distraídas, muchas veces, cuando están despiertas, piensan, que ven demonios negros en lugares donde no hay ningún objeto negro a la vista sin ellos.”

Robert Boyle

Fuente: http://books.google.es/books?id=LqYrAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA671 The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle: In Six Volumes. Volumen 1. Thomas Birch (editor). J. and F. Rivington, 1772. Pág. 671

Robert Boyle: Frases en inglés

“I need not tell you, what complaints the more candid and judicious of the Chymists themselves are wont to make of those boasters, that confidently pretend, that they have extracted the salt or sulphur of quicksilver, when they have disguised it by additaments, wherewith it resembles the concretes, whose names are given it; whereas by a skilful and rigid examen, it may be easily enough stripped of its disguises, and made to appear again in the pristine form of running mercury. The pretended salts and sulphurs being so far from being elementary parts extracted out of the body of mercury, that they are rather… de-compound bodies, made up of the whole metal and the menstruum, or other additaments employed to disguise it.”

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Robert Boyle libro The Sceptical Chymist

Part I
The Sceptical Chymist (1661)

“There are some mixt bodies, from which it has not been yet made appear, that any degree of fire can separate either salt, or sulphur, or mercury, much less all the three. The most obvious instance of this truth is gold, which is a body so fixed, and wherein the elementary ingredients (if it have any) are so firmly united to each other, that we find not in the operations, wherein gold is exposed to the fire, how violent soever, that it does discernably so much as lose of its fixedness or weight, so far is it from being dissipated into those principles, whereof one at least is acknowledged to be fugitive enough.”

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Robert Boyle libro The Sceptical Chymist

Part I
The Sceptical Chymist (1661)

“Those distinct substances, which concretes generally either afford, or are made up of, may, without very much inconvenience, be called the elements or principles of them.”

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Robert Boyle libro The Sceptical Chymist

Part I, Proposition IV
The Sceptical Chymist (1661)

“As for silver, I never could see any degree of fire make it part with any of its three principles. …But admitting, that some parts of the silver were driven away by the violence of the fire, what proof is there, that it was either the salt, the sulphur, or the mercury of the metal, and not rather a part of it homogeneous to what remained? for besides that the silver, that was left, seemed not sensibly altered, which probably would have appeared, had so much of any one of its principles been separated from it.”

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Fuente: The Sceptical Chymist (1661), Part I

“Being Gentlemen and very far from the litigious humour of loving to wrangle about words or terms or notions as empty; they had before his coming in, readily agreed promiscuously to use when they pleased Elements and Principles as terms equivalent: and to understand both by the one and the other, those primitive and simple bodies of which the mixt ones are said to be composed, and into which they are ultimately resolved.”

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Robert Boyle libro The Sceptical Chymist

Physiological Considerations Part of the First Dialogue (16)
The Sceptical Chymist (1661)

“I observe, that of late Chymistry begins, as indeed it deserves, to be cultivated by Learned Men who before despis’d it; and to be pretended to by many who never cultivated it, that they may be thought not to ignore it: Whence it is come to passe, that divers Chymical Notions about Matters Philosophical are taken for granted and employ’d, and so adopted by very eminent Writers both Naturalists and Physitians. Now this I fear may prove somewhat prejudicial to the Advancement of solid Philosophy: For though I am a great Lover of Chymical Experiments, and though I have no mean esteem of divers Chymical Remedies, yet I distinguish these from their Notions about the causes of things, and their manner of Generation.”

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Fuente: The Sceptical Chymist (1661), Preface Introductory to the Following Treatise

“Doubtless, it shews the wisdom of God, to have so fram'd things at first, that there can seldom or never need any extraordinary interposition of his power; or the employing from, time to time, an intelligent overseer, to regulate, assist, and control the motions of matter.”

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"A Free Inquiry into the Vulgar Notion of Nature," Sect.1 in The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle (1725) Vol.2 http://books.google.com/books?id=Y-YJAAAAMAAJ

“The phaenomena afforded by trades, are a part of the history of nature, and therefore may both challenge the naturalist's curiosity and add to his knowledge, Nor will it suffice to justify learned men in the neglect and contempt of this part of natural history, that the men, from whom it must be learned, are illiterate mechanicks… is indeed childish, and too unworthy of a philosopher, to be worthy of an honest answer.”

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Compare Francis Bacon's The Great Instauration
"That the Goods of Mankind May be Much Increased by the Naturalist's Insight into Trades" in the Works of Robert Boyle, (1772) Vol.3 as quoted in Clifford D. Conner, A People's History of Science (2005)

“It seems not absurd to conceive, that at first production of mixt bodies, the universal matter, whereof they among other parts of the universe consisted, was actually divided, into little particles, of several sizes and shapes, variously moved.”

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Robert Boyle libro The Sceptical Chymist

Part I, Proposition I
The Sceptical Chymist (1661)

“Epicurus… supposes not only all mixt bodies, but all others to be produced by the various and casual occursions of atoms, moving themselves to and fro by an internal principle in the immense or rather infinite vacuum.”

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Robert Boyle libro The Sceptical Chymist

Part I, Carneades speaking
The Sceptical Chymist (1661)

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

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Treatises on the high veneration man's intellect owes to God: on things above reason; and on the style of the Holy Scriptures http://books.google.com.mx/books?id=PKEPAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false. p. 182

“A Person any Thing vers’d in the Writings of Chymists cannot but Discern by their obscure, Ambiguous, and almost Ænigmatical Way of expressing what they pretend to Teach, that they have no Mind, to be understood at all, but by the Sons of Art (as they call them) nor to be Understood even by these without Difficulty And Hazardous Tryalls.”

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Robert Boyle libro The Sceptical Chymist

Preface Introductory to the Following Treatise
The Sceptical Chymist (1661)

“I cannot conceive, how a body, destitute of understanding and sense, truly so called, can moderate and determine its own motions; especially so as to make them conformable to laws that it has no knowledge of.”

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"A Free Inquiry into the Vulgar Notion of Nature" Sect.1 ibid.

“And therefore I think you have done very wisely to make it your business to consider the Phœnomena relating to the present question, which have been afforded by experiments, especially since it might seem injurious to our senses, by whose mediation we acquire so much of the knowledge we have of things corporal, to have recourse to far-fetched and abstracted Ratiocination, to know what are the sensible ingredients of those sensible things that we daily see and handle, and are supposed to have the liberty to untwist (if I may so speak) into the primitive bodies they consist of.”

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Robert Boyle libro The Sceptical Chymist

Physiological Considerations Part of the First Dialogue (15)
The Sceptical Chymist (1661)