"The Designe of the Royall Society being the……" — 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 of in the prosecution thereof. Naturall knowledge then being the thing sought for, we are to consider by what meanes it may soonest easiest and most certainly attaind. These meanes we shall the sooner find if we consider where tis to be had to wit in three places. first in bookes, 2dly in men. 3ly in the things themselves. and these three point us out the search of books. the converse & correspondence with men the Experimenting and Examining the things themselves under each of these there is a multitude of businesse to be done but the first hath the Least [and is] the most easily attained, the 2d hath a great Deal and requires much endeavour and Industry; and the 3d is infinite and the difficultest of all."
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Robert Hooke
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12 Quotes by Robert Hooke
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The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and…
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There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or…
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The footsteps of Nature are to be trac'd, not only in her ordinary course, but when she seems to be…
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Most of these Mountains and Inland places whereon these kind of Petrify'd Bodies and Shells are found at present, or…
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If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for…
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For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in…
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By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new…
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By this the Earth it self, which lyes so near us, under our feet, shews quite a new thing to…
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We have the opportunity of observing her through these delicate and pellucid teguments of the bodies of Insects acting according…
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For the limits to which our thoughts are confind, are small in respect of the vast extent of Nature itself;…
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