I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but…

Anatomy is destiny.

— Sigmund Freud

Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of a country…

— Claude Bernard

Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements…

— Harold Bloom

“I feel your body, your sick and scared body. And I feel how it must be different from how it was, and how it…

— Christine Montross

“The pen is an extension of my anatomy.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a…

— Jared Diamond

We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations…

— Shonda Rhimes

Ultimately, the problem is that sex is perceived as a personal, intimate thing, not in the realm of science. But that's not true. It's…

— Mary Roach

Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore…

— B. J. Chute

The whole aim of comparative anatomy is to discover what structures are homologous.

— Libbie Hyman

I am sincerely trying now to create a dance technique based entirely upon corrective exercises, created with a knowledge of human anatomy; a technique…

— Lester Horton

My philosophy is this: Do not tamper with the anatomy of a woman's body; do not camouflage it.

— Oleg Cassini

My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and…

— Carl Sagan

In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct…

— Peter Mandelson

Open up a few corpses: you will dissipate at once the darkness that observation alone could not dissipate.

— Marie Francois Xavier Bichat