The excellency of theology compar'd with natural philosophy (as both are objects of men's study) / discours'd of in a letter to a friend by T.H.R.B.E, ... grounds of the mechanical hypothesis Quotes

“The revealed truths, if they be burdens to reason, are but such burdens as feathers are to a hawk, which, instead of hindering his flight by their weight, enable him to soar toward heaven and take a larger prospect, than if he had no feathers, he could possibly do.”
― Robert Boyle, The excellency of theology compar'd with natural philosophy (as both are objects of men's study) / discours'd of in a letter to a friend by T.H.R.B.E, ... grounds of the mechanical hypothesis