"We have the opportunity of observing her through……" — 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 and way, undisturbed, whereas when we endeavour to pry into her secrets by breaking open the doors upon her, and dissecting and mangling creatures whil'st there is life yet within them, we find her indeed at work, but put into such disorder by the violence offer'd, as it may easily be imagined how differing a thing we should find, if we could, as we can with a Microscope, in these smaller creatures, quietly peep in at the windows, without frighting her out of her usual byas."
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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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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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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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