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All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.
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I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from…
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And so I conclude that blood lives and is nourished of itself and in no way depends on any other part of…
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Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart…
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The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that…
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Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.
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The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of…
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Memory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain where it has never been.
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There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or…
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I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
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As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to…
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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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Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process
— Gerald Edelman
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This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the…
— William Harvey
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The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.
— Aristotle
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The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
— Benjamin Cardozo
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It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe,…
— Arthur Balfour
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The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the…
— Aristotle
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So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving…
— Erasmus Darwin
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But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person…
— Orson Scott Card
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Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become,…
— Julian Barnes
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I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in…
— Walter Scott
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