Robert Hooke

The more we investigate, the more we are illuminated.

The more we search, the more we are rewarded.

The more we explore, the more we are enriched.

The more we observe, the more we are inspired.

The more we examine, the more we are convinced.

The more we study, the more we are educated.

The more we reflect, the more we are enlightened.

As 'tis usual for the most curious and inquisitive to be the most incredulous, so 'tis for the most ignorant and unthinking to be the most credulous.

The truth is, the science of nature has been too long made a work of the brain and the fancy. It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and sincerity of the eye and the hand.

The business of the Royal Society is to improve natural knowledge, and not to meddle with divinity, metaphysics, morals, politics, grammar, rhetoric, or logic.

I have often wondered that so many ingenious and learned men should have taken so much pains to find out the causes of things, when they have not yet sufficiently observed the things themselves.

As for the causes of gravity, I have not yet been able to discover them.

All bodies whatsoever that are put into a circular motion, do endeavour to recede from the center of their motion.

The power of gravity is inversely as the square of the distance from the center.

I have made a discovery of the true cause of the flux and reflux of the sea, and of the motion of the moon about the earth.

The eye is a most wonderful instrument, and by its help we may discover many things that are otherwise invisible.

I have observed in a piece of cork, a great many little boxes, or cells, distinct from one another.

The air is a fluid body, and has weight, and is capable of being compressed and expanded.

I have invented a new way of making watches go more accurately, by the help of a spring.

The great fire of London has given me an opportunity of showing my skill in architecture.