Dissections Quotes by William Harvey

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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…
• And so I conclude that blood lives and is nourished of itself and in no way depends on any other part of…
• Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart…
• The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the…

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