When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could discover the function and offices of the heart's movement in animals through the use of my own eyes… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
For the concept of a circuit of the blood does not destroy, but rather advances traditional medicine. — William Harvey Copy Share Image
Harvey sought for truth in Truth's own book- Creation - which by God himself was writ;And wisely thought 'twas fitNot to read comments only… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
And so I conclude that blood lives and is nourished of itself and in no way depends on any other part of the body… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
I have often wondered and even laughed at those who fancied that everything had been so consummately and absolutely investigated by an Aristotle or… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their faith to… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
“...I found the task so truly arduous... that I was almost tempted to think... that the movement of the heart was only to be… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known. — William Harvey Copy Share Image
The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
