Quote#Wisdom
I cannot conceive, how a body, destitute of understanding and sense,…
Quote byRobert Boyle · 1627–1691
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Free Inquiry into the Vulgar Notion of Nature (1682), Sect.1..
English (original)
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.
— Robert Boyle
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