So numberless a multitude, and so great a variety of
birds,
beasts,
fishes,
reptiles,
herbs,
shrubs,
trees,
stones,
metals,
minerals,
stars, &c.
and everyone of them plentifully furnished and endowed with all the qualifications requisite to the attainment of the respective ends of its creation, are productions of a wisdom too limitless not to be peculiar to God: ... which do all of them deserve that extensive exclamation of the Psalmist, “How manifold are thy works, 0 Lord; in wisdom hast thou made them all.” [Psalm 104:24] — Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691), father of experimental chemisty