William Harvey Quotes

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• All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.
• I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of…
• And so I conclude that blood lives and is nourished of itself and in no way depends on any other part of the body as…
• Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten…
• The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all…
• Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.
• The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source…
• Memory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain where it has never been.
• There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some…
• I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
• As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.
• This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the sun deserves to…
• Nature is a volume of which God is the author.
• Only by understanding the wisdom of natural foods and their effects on the body, shall we attain mastery of disease and pain, which shall enable…
• It is, however, an argument of no weight to say that natural bodies are first generated or compounded out of those things into which they…
• I just start singing, and it all comes back.
• 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 actions…

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