Boyle

Boyle is a common Irish surname and may refer to:

  • Boyle (crater), a lunar crater
  • Boyle's law, in physics, one of the gas laws; named after English natural philosopher Robert Boyle
  • Clan Boyle, a Scottish clan
  • 11967 Boyle, an asteroid
  • USS Boyle (DD-600), U.S. Navy destroyer

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Famous quotes containing the word boyle:

    “The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.”
    —John Boyle O’Reilly (1844–1890)

    “Logic, reason, disease, and the menace of death, these things meant nothing at all to us. We were committed to other values by which the poet has always lived in defiance of all that society demanded of him.”
    —Kay Boyle (1903–1993)