Organs Quotes

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Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and general motory organ… — Emanuel Swedenborg
The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure,… — Lewis Thomas
Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity… — George Santayana
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to start with? Many… — Alan Turing
Face towards the perfect image of every organ and the shadows of disease will never touch you. — Robert Collier
O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down… — Benjamin Disraeli
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. — Emo Philips
I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to those… — Francois Magendie
The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling. — Antoinette Brown Blackwell
If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids… — Thomas Jefferson
Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of a country to… — Claude Bernard
It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts-that have given rise to its habits and particular structures. It… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the union.… — George Wald
Even the mind depends so much on temperament and the disposition of one's bodily organs that, if it is possible to find a way to… — Rene Descartes
The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like the other organs… — Steven Pinker
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's… — Rollo May
Man is the mirror God holds up to himself, the sense organ with which he apprehends his being. — Carl Jung
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an… — Arthur Koestler

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