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Robert Hooke Quotes
Birthplace: | Freshwater, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom |
Educated At: | Westminster School, Christ Church |
Nationality: | Kingdom Of England |
Occupations: | University Teacher, Physicist, Diarist, Astronomer, Architect |
Religion: | Anglicanism |
Total quotes: 20
Robert Hooke
BirthnameBirthplace: Freshwater, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Educated At: Westminster School, Christ Church
Nationality: Kingdom Of England
Occupations: University Teacher, Physicist, Diarist, Astronomer, Architect
Religion: Anglicanism
Total quotes: 20
“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 understanding.”
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Microscopes, small, Inquiry, World, visible, Understanding, Discover, tiny, Study, Science, experiment, Learning
“As in Geometry, the most natural way of beginning is from a Mathematical point; so is the same method in Observations and Natural history the most genuine, simple, and instructive. We must first endevour to make letters, and draw single strokes true, before we venture to write whole Sentences, or to draw large Pictures.”
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Geometry, Natural, Mathematical, Mathematics, Math, arithmetic, Logic, Method, Observations, Natural, History, Genuine, instructive, Letters, strokes, draw, skill, Sentences, Pictures, technique
“Next, as for the Memory, or retentive faculty, we may be sufficiently instructed from the written Histories of civil actions, what great assistance may be afforded the Memory, in the committing to writing things observable in natural operations.”
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Memory, retentive faculty, remember, Histories, actions, assistance, committing, Writing, Observe, natural operations
“And in Physical Enquiries, we must endevour to follow Nature in the more plain and easie ways she treads in the most simple and uncompounded bodies, to trace her steps, and be acquainted with her manner of walking there, before we venture our selves into the multitude of meanders she has in bodies of a more complicated nature; lest, being unable to distinguish and judge of our way, we quickly lose both Nature our Guide, and our selves too, and are left to wander in the labyrinth of groundless opinions; wanting both judgment, that light, and experience, that clew, which should direct our proceedings.”
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physical, Enquiries, Nature, Guide, Bodies, venture, Adventure, Journey, distinguish, labyrinth, Judgment, Opinions, Light, Experience, proceedings
“For the Members of the Assembly having before their eys so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part of mankind has so long wandred, because they rely'd upon the strength of humane Reason alone, have begun anew to correct all Hypotheses by sense, as Seamen do their dead Reckonings by Cœlestial Observations; and to this purpose it has been their principal indeavour to enlarge & strengthen the Senses by Medicine, and by such outward Instruments as are proper for their particular works.”
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Errors, falshoods, Reason, Hypotheses, Reckonings, Observations, senses, Medicine, Instruments, Science, Knowledge, Learning, Health, Innovation
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