“He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.” CareScienceChemistryHarvey Author:John Aubrey
“Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall to the square of the distance: ... This is the greatest Discovery in Nature that ever was since the World's Creation. It was never so much as hinted by any man before. I wish he had writt plainer, and afforded a little more paper.” MenWorldLittlesWholeScienceNextWishCreationTheoryPaperDiscoveryLettersDistanceSquaresHypothesisNewtonIsaacGravitation Author:John Aubrey