Anatomy Quote by Jean Fernel

Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of a country…

— Claude Bernard

Descriptive Anatomy comprises a detailed account of the numerous organs of which the body is formed, especially with reference to their outward form, their…

— Henry Gray

Anatomy presupposes a corpse; psychology presupposes a world of corpses.

— D. H. Lawrence

It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes the essential…

— William Morris Davis

Biological anthropology tends to focus on skeletons because that's what is often left behind in the ground, but I am a whole-body anatomist, I'm…

— Alice Roberts

Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with…

— Wilhelm Wundt

Physiology, in its analysis of the physiological functions of the sense organs, must use the results of subjective observation of sensations; and psychology, in…

— Wilhelm Wundt

Beyond natural history Other biological sciences take up the study at other levels of organization: dissecting the individual into organs and tissues and seeing…

— Marston Bates

Physiology is the basis of all medical improvement and in precise proportion as our survey of it becomes more accurate and extended, it is…

— John Gorrie

Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws…

— Anonymous

“Our aim for ever must be the pursuit of the knowledge of Man in his entirety. To study the flesh, the skin, the bones,…

— Dylan Thomas

Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is usually commenced…

— Charles Lyell