Robert Hooke

The more we experiment, the more we shall learn.

The business of the Royal Society is to improve the knowledge of natural things.

The true method of inquiry is to begin with observations and experiments.

The world is a great machine, and all its motions are mechanical.

I have often wondered that so many learned men should have taken so much pains to find out the cause of gravity, when they might have found it out by looking into a book.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

The truth is, I have always been a little too much in love with my own inventions.

To see what others have seen, and to think what no one else has thought.

I have often observed that those who have the least to say, say it with the most confidence.

Nature is a great book, and he who reads it with understanding, will find in it more than is written in all the books of the learned.

It is a great pity that so many ingenious men should spend their time in disputing about words, when they might be employed in searching after things.

I confess I have been sometimes so much transported with the pleasure of my discoveries, that I have neglected my health and my affairs.

The greatest discoveries are often made by those who are not afraid to be thought foolish.

I have often found that the shortest way to a man's understanding is through his eyes.

It is a strange thing that men should be so fond of their own opinions, when they are so often mistaken.

I have often observed that those who are most forward to censure others, are generally the most backward to examine themselves.

The more I examine the works of nature, the more I am convinced that there is a wise and powerful Creator.

I have often found that the best way to learn is to teach.

It is a great misfortune to have a mind that is always in a hurry.

I have often observed that those who are most eager to find fault, are generally the least able to mend it.