Organs Quotes

507 Organs quotes by 389 unique authors

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
It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence of the environment,… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better to think of… — Tim Birkhead
In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous and… — Susan Blackmore
The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions. — Eric Kandel
Is the brain, which is notably double in structure, a double organ, 'seeming parted, but yet a union in partition'? — Unknown Author
The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race. — Wilder Penfield
The brain is not, like the liver, heart and other internal organs, capable from the moment of birth of all the functions which it ever… — Unknown Author
The brain, to be sure, is indeed the physical embodiment of the mind, the organ through which the mind finds expression and through which it… — Unknown Author
There are those among us who would have us say that the mysteries of the brain are completely solved and little needs to be added… — Nicolas Steno

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