" 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, Also, Some Occasional Thouhts about the Excellency and Grounds of the Mechanical Hypothesis (1674)