Quote #3

I profess both to learn and to teach anatomy, not from books but from dissections; not from positions of philosophers but from the fabric of nature.

More from William Harvey

  1. All that we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.
  2. I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
  3. The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm.
  4. As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.
  5. I appeal to your own eyes as my witness and judge.

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