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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 high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of Observations on material and obvious things.”
— Robert Hooke, Micrographia
Tagged: Science, Brain, Nature, fancy, Observations, Material, obvious, Natural, Life, Living, Creation, Interest, Study, Knowledge, Learning
“Statistics are history, and we gather them so that we can learn from history.”
— Robert Hooke, How to Tell the Liars from the Statisticians
Tagged: Statistics, History, Past, Lessons, learn
“It is said of great Empires, That the best way to preserve them from decay, is to bring them back to the first Principles, and Arts, on which they did begin.”
— Robert Hooke, Micrographia
Tagged: Empires, preserve, Decay, Principles, Arts, begin, Beginning, Legacy, History
“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”
— Robert Hooke, How to Tell the Liars from the Statisticians
Tagged: Believe, tabulate, Numbers, statistician, scalpel, Surgeon, skills, Knowledge, expertise, Education
“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.”
— Robert Hooke, Micrographia
Tagged: Microscopes, small, Inquiry, World, visible, Understanding, Discover, tiny, Study, Science, experiment, Learning
“Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?”
— Robert Hooke, Micrographia
Tagged: Morning, devotions, grooming, dirty, Soul, unwashed, Start, Day, Routine, Beginning, hygiene
“Sensible people take precautions against possible disasters, and of course one man's idea of precaution is another man's silly worry, but whether we're heavy worriers or light worriers, we all have to draw the line somewhere, and say, "This thing happens too rarely to give me concern."”
— Robert Hooke, How to Tell the Liars from the Statisticians
Tagged: sensible, People, precautions, disaster, Caution, Take Care, worry, Concern, danger
“The true Mathematical and Mechanical Form of all manner of Arches for building with the true abutment necessary to each of them, a Problem which no Architectonick Writer hath ever yet attempted, much less perform'd. ...Ut pendet continaum flexile, sic stabit contiguum rigidum, which is the Linea Catenaria.”
— Robert Hooke, The posthumous works of Robert Hooke, containing his Cutlerian lectures, and other discourses
Tagged: Mathematical, Mechanical, Form, Arches, Building, Necessary, Problem, Architectonic, writer, atchitecture, Design
“At these meetings, which were about the year 1655, divers experiments were suggested, discoursed, and tried with various successes, though no other account was taken of them but what particular persons perhaps did for the help of their own memories; so that many excellent things have been lost.”
— Robert Hooke, Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Volume 49
Tagged: Meeting, divers, Experiments, Discourse, successes, account, persons, Memories, lost, excellent, 1655, Story, record, History, Science, Knowledge
“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.”
— Robert Hooke, Micrographia
Tagged: Memory, retentive faculty, remember, Histories, actions, assistance, committing, Writing, Observe, natural operations
“An individual who is afraid to go outdoors for fear of being hit by a meteorite is generally regarded as neurotic. Such worry is unreasonable, we think, because being hit by a meteorite, while quite possible, is an exceedingly rare event. Being struck by lightning is also rare, but it is more likely than being hit by an astronomical object, so we devote a little more concern to it.”
— Robert Hooke, How to Tell the Liars from the Statisticians
Tagged: Afraid, Fear, meteorite, Outdoors, neurotic, worry, Unreasonable, Possible, Possibility, lightning, accident, event, rare, Concern
“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.”
— Robert Hooke, Micrographia
Tagged: Errors, falshoods, Reason, Hypotheses, Reckonings, Observations, senses, Medicine, Instruments, Science, Knowledge, Learning, Health, Innovation
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