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Robert Boyle Quotes on Truth

Robert Boyle was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, and theologian and one of the founders of the Royal Society. This page collects quotes attributed to Robert Boyle on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Robert Boyle:

    “Things are to be inquired into by experiment, not by argument from authority.”

  • Attributed to Robert Boyle:

    “True science begins where prejudice ends.”

  • Attributed to Robert Boyle:

    “The world is a great piece of clockwork.”

  • “For it has been truly observed by a great philosopher, that truth does more easily emerge out of error than confusion.”

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