““he spelled out with crystal clarity the philosophy behind all of his work, the value of ‘a sincere hand, and a faithful eye, to examine, and to record, the things themselves as they appear’, rather than relying on ‘work of the brain and the fancy’ without any grounding in experiment and observation. ‘The truth is,’ wrote Hooke, ‘the science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the brain and the fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of observations on material and obvious things.””
![“I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions of phantasmatical seeming philosophy." [William Petty]” quote by Carl Zimmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e5a/carl-zimmer-16331_knowledge_i-never-knew-any-man-who-had-once-tasted_1770.jpg)
