William Harvey
Blood circulation
Sayings by William Harvey
The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds.
Nature is nowhere accustomed to exhibit herself more openly than in her failures.
The wise man will not be content with the knowledge of things as they are, but will seek to know how they came to be so.
It is not wealth or ancestry, but rather the spirit of the age, which has raised me to the highest pinnacle of fame.
The examination of the body after death is a most useful and necessary practice.
I am not afraid to confess that I am a man who loves to dissect.
The circulation of the blood is the greatest discovery ever made in medicine.
Errors are not to be removed by violence, but by reason.
It is a thing worthy of observation how much more easily and quickly the mind is deceived than the eye.
The knowledge of man is the knowledge of God.
Nature is the best teacher.
The physician must be a lover of wisdom.
The greatest pleasure is to be found in the contemplation of truth.
The body is the instrument of the soul.
To search for truth is to search for God.
The greatest art is to conceal art.
The life of man is a perpetual motion.
The physician must be a philosopher, for there is not so great a difference between them.
The study of anatomy is the study of God's handiwork.
The whole world is a theatre, and all the men and women merely players.