Proofs Quotes by Robert Hooke

We have the opportunity of observing her through these delicate and pellucid teguments of the bodies of Insects acting according to her usual course…

— Robert Hooke

The Designe of the Royall Society being the Improvement of Naturall knowledge all ways and meanes that tend thereunto ought to be made use…

— Robert Hooke

For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part…

— Robert Hooke

The footsteps of Nature are to be trac'd, not only in her ordinary course, but when she seems to be put to her shifts,…

— Robert Hooke

Most of these Mountains and Inland places whereon these kind of Petrify'd Bodies and Shells are found at present, or have been heretofore, were…

— Robert Hooke

There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been set forward…

— Robert Hooke

If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs, that such…

— Robert Hooke

For the limits to which our thoughts are confind, are small in respect of the vast extent of Nature itself; some parts of it…

— Robert Hooke

By this the Earth it self, which lyes so near us, under our feet, shews quite a new thing to us, and in every…

— Robert Hooke

Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.

— Robert Hooke

The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is…

— Robert Hooke

The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines…

— Robert Hooke

Nature … is, as it were, a continual circulation. Water is rais'd in Vapour into the Air by one Quality and precipitated down in…

— Robert Hooke

It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a…

— Robert Hooke