Quotation by 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.
Robert Hooke (1635–1703), British physicist. Micrographia (1665).

Empiricism preferable to rationalism.
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