Quote#World
I shall take leave to think the worse, rather of the practice of the…
Quote byRobert Boyle · 1627–1691
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Some Considerations Touching the Style of the Holy Scriptures" (1661) "Seventh Objection", as quoted in Treatises on the High Veneration Man's Intellect Owes to God: on Things Above Reason; and on The Style of the Holy Scriptures (1835) p. 182.
English (original)
I shall take leave to think the worse, rather of the practice of the men than of the book of God.
— Robert Boyle
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the ignorant and credulous (of which the number is still much greater then that of the other)
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
admire most what they least understand.
far from having such a stock of experiments and observations