Robert Hooke Quotes

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• The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now…
• There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been set forward by…
• 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, to…
• It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.
• 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 formerly…
• If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs, that such Persons…
• For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part of…
• By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible world discovered to the…
• By this the Earth it self, which lyes so near us, under our feet, shews quite a new thing to us, and in every little…
• We have the opportunity of observing her through these delicate and pellucid teguments of the bodies of Insects acting according to her usual course and…
• The Designe of the Royall Society being the Improvement of Naturall knowledge all ways and meanes that tend thereunto ought to be made use of…
• For the limits to which our thoughts are confind, are small in respect of the vast extent of Nature itself; some parts of it are…

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