"I have made many mistakes myself; in learning……" — Astley Cooper
"I have made many mistakes myself; in learning the anatomy of the eye I dare say, I have spoiled a hatfull; the best surgeon, like the best general, is he who makes the fewest mistakes."
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7 Quotes by Astley Cooper
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Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical…
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Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the…
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In the collecting of evidence upon any medical subject, there are but three sources from which we can hope to…
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The means by which I preserve my own health are, temperance, early rising, and spunging the body every morning with…
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My lectures were highly esteemed, but I am of opinion my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it.
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If you are too fond of new remedies, first you will not cure your patients; secondly, you will have no…
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.
— Erma Bombeck
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One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of…
— Benjamin Carson
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In such sad circumstances I but see myself exalted by my own enemies, for in order to defeat some small…
— Marcello Malpighi
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had…
— Sydney Brenner
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My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence…
— Carl Sagan
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Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the…
— Claude Bernard
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Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all…
— John Dryden
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Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of…
— Charles Lyell
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Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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... our "Physick" and "Anatomy" have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time…
— Thomas Huxley
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