Quote#Courage
Chymists write thus darkly, not because they think their Notions too…
Quote byRobert Boyle · 1627–1691
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Part IV.
English (original)
Chymists write thus darkly, not because they think their Notions too precious to be explain'd, but because they fear that if they were explain'd, men would discern, that they are farr from being precious.
— Robert Boyle
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I shall take leave to think the worse, rather of the practice of the men than of the book of God.
they are encourag'd to get themselves a name, at the cost of the Readers
But if judicious men skilled in Chymical affairs shall once agree to write clearly and plainly
the ignorant and credulous (of which the number is still much greater then that of the other)
admire most what they least understand.
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.