"The truth is, the Science of Nature has……" — 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 now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of Observations on material and obvious things."
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Robert Hooke
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12 Quotes by Robert Hooke
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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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It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns…
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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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The Designe of the Royall Society being the Improvement of Naturall knowledge all ways and meanes that tend thereunto ought…
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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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