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Robert Hooke: English scientist who coined the word cell and formulated Hooke's law, 1635 to 1703.

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 · The source reads: “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.” · Micrographia (1665)

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