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."

"I have often wished I could have discovered an easier and shorter way to the study of nature, which neither I nor others could have thought of before."

"Life in reality is but a motion, which conducts every thing to its death."

"The path of true knowledge is laid with iron rails on which the car of Reason is drawn by the locomotive Power of Facts."

"Memory is the treasure and guardian of all things."

"I desire to speak or write nothing concerning these Matters, but what I can very clearly make good by Ocular Demonstration."

"The observer's task is to look, to listen, and to record without prejudice or preconception."

"Nature abhors a vacuum."

"Beauty and truth in mathematics and science go together."

"The perfection of sight by Telescopes is at last, after many attempts, invented by the Dutch."

"What the world wants is not theoretical explanation but practical demonstration."

"Every part of nature teaches us something."

"The more we know, the more we realize how much we don't know."

"Truth is not a matter of opinion but of observation and experiment."

"In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it."

"The foundation of all natural philosophy must be laid on the basis of experiment."

"Curiosity is the engine of achievement."

"I stand on the shoulders of giants."

"The greatest discoveries are those which prove our previous understanding to be incomplete."

"Time is the measure of all things."

"Knowledge without practice is sterile."

"The universe is a machine governed by mathematical laws."

"Observation is the foundation of all human knowledge."

"The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics."

"Fear is the enemy of progress."

"What we call invention is really discovery."

"The mind is capable of understanding everything in nature."

"In every particle of matter, there is contained all the laws of nature."

"The pursuit of truth requires patience and perseverance."

"Beauty arises from the harmony of parts."