Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle
Robert William Boyle FRSwas an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor born in Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method. He is best known for Boyle's law, which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system. Among...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionProduction Designer
Date of Birth10 October 1909
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryIreland
I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.
He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.
The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures of God. For many have not only look'd upon it, as an impossible thing to compass, but as something impious to attempt.
The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and think it but one remove from nothing.
As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.
If the omniscient author of nature knew that the study of his works tends to make men disbelieve his Being or Attributes, he would not have given them so many invitations to study and contemplate Nature.
People call a number to report that they're parking on the street.
We'll always be happy with more convention space or plenary space, ... The city can always use it.
And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them.
The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.
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The owners plan to have that kind of activity continue.
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There is no concrete plan. I think development is certainly possible, but I don't think there is any guarantee.