“I shall take leave to think the word, rather of the practice of the men than of the book of God.”

— Robert Boyle

Treatises on the high veneration man's intellect owes to God: on things above reason; and on the style of the Holy Scriptures http://books.google.com.mx/books?id=PKEPAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false. p. 182

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English natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and invent… 1627–1691

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