"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