Organs Quotes

507 Organs quotes by 389 unique authors

Behavior is ultimately the product of the brain, the most mysterious organ of them all. — Ian Tattersall
By brain is meant, in the first instance, something more than the pink-grey jelly of the anatomist. It is, even to a scientist, the organ… — Unknown Author
In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind the evidence that… — John Zachary Young
Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but a cry from suffering organs. — Jean-Martin Charcot
Organic chemistry is the study of organs; inorganic chemistry is the study of the insides of organs. — Max Shulman
Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated… — Francis Maitland Balfour
It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must be improved in… — Joseph Murray
O most sacred, most loving heart of Jesus, thou art concealed in the Holy Eucharist, and thou beatest for us still.... Thou art the heart… — John Henry Newman
One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first halt before the study of… — Ivan Pavlov
The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an… — Frederick Soddy
I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't… — Kate Clinton
Our main reproductive organ is our brain. — Molly Kelly
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination. — Eduard Hanslick
One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the… — Hermann Weyl
I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to… — Dave Barry
The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without… — Louis Agassiz
A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization. — Herbert Spencer
It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the laws which determine… — Georges Cuvier
A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a… — Michael Faraday
Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act of the Creative Imagination. ... For prayer is not a request for something: it is the expression… — Henry Corbin
What if it is for life's sake that we must die? In truth we are not individuals; and it is because we think ourselves such… — Will Durant
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than the… — Kenny Smith
Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by… — Thomas Carlyle

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