Physiology Quotes

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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. — Samuel Butler
In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I… — Sydney Brenner
In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance… — Ernest Starling
My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology,… — Carl Sagan
A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow… — Thomas Carlyle
It has been recognized that hydrogen bonds restrain protein molecules to their native configurations, and I believe that as the methods of structural chemistry are… — Linus Pauling
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
Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone);… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most… — Claude Bernard
Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to assume our physiology… — Lionel Tiger
What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels. — Joseph Glanvill
Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events. — Jean Fernel
Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but… — Emile M. Cioran
Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned… — George Bernard Shaw
One wonders how people in primitive societies, with no knowledge of chemistry or physiology, ever hit upon a solution to the activation of an alkaloid… — Richard Evans Schultes
My duration's infinite, money-wise or physiology. — Nas
Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences, and mankind's study of man occupies nearly the whole field of literature. The burden of history is… — George Finlayson
The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to the laws of the organization… — Franz Joseph Gall
There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health. — Herbert Benson
Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which… — Johannes Peter Muller

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