Anatomy Quote by James Henry Breasted

““Very often conditions are recorded as observable "under thy fingers" [...] Among such observations it is important to notice that the pulsations of the human heart are observed.””

James Henry Breasted

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Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

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Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.

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The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

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“With the consolidation under Menes it was already an institution of great age, and over four centuries of development which then followed, had at…

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Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from…

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“Not all the gods who appear in these tales and fancies became more than mythological figures. Many of them continued merely in this role,…

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“Keb and Nut were the father and mother of the four divinities, Osiris and Isis, Set and Nephthys; together they formed with their primeval…

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“[...] the success of Egyptian surgery in setting broken bones is very fully demonstrated in the large number of well-joined fractures found in the…

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We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

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