Quote#Courage
I fear that the chief Reason why Chymists have written so obscurely…
Quote byRobert Boyle · 1627–1691
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Part IV.
English (original)
I fear that the chief Reason why Chymists have written so obscurely of their three Principles, may be, That not having Clear and Distinct Notions of them themselves, they cannot write otherwise then Confusedly of what they but Confusedly Apprehend.
— Robert Boyle
More from Robert Boyle
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.