I profess both to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections; not from the tenets of philosophers but from the fabric of nature.
Blood circulation
De Motu Cordis (Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus), Dedication to King Charles I
1628
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"As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known."
Philosophical"The examination of the bodies of animals has always been my delight."
Controversial"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
Controversial"The heart is the beginning of life, and the source of all motion."
Strange & Unusual"The blood is a spirit, and the spirit is the life."
Strange & Unusual