Robert Hooke

I am sensible how much I have trespassed upon your time.

The phenomena of gravity deserve to be considered more exactly.

The attraction is stronger the nearer the bodies approach each other.

I have been too long in debt to the public for the great benefits I have received from it.

My memory is very treacherous.

I am now in the 40th year of my age, and have been a great while in the world.

The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.

Beauty is nature's coin, must not be hoarded, but must be current.

The severity of the law is not so much to punish crimes as to prevent them.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least dreadful of all evils.

Let the Royal Society flourish.

Newton's work is built upon my shoulders.

I will not be imposed upon by any man.

The microscope has opened a new world to us.

Observation is the firmest ground of probability.

The variety of colours in the peacock's tail is produced by the structure of the feathers.

In the structure of the bee's wing, we see the wisdom of the Creator.

The spring of a watch is a model of elasticity in nature.

Gravity is the spring of motion.

The planets move in ellipses, but I saw it first.