All Sayings

7,319 sayings found from the Early Modern era

The greatest pleasure is to be found in the smallest things.

— Carl Linnaeus Uncertain (attributed)
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Nature is never exhausted; she has always new wonders for our admiration.

— Carl Linnaeus Uncertain (attributed)
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The whole earth is a garden, and man is its gardener.

— Carl Linnaeus Uncertain (attributed)
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The classification of animals is easier than that of plants.

— Carl Linnaeus c. 1730s-1770s
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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.

— William Harvey 1628
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Nature is nowhere accustomed to exhibit herself more openly than in her failures.

— William Harvey c. 1650s (attributed)
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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.

— William Harvey c. 1650s (attributed)
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It is not wealth or ancestry, but rather the spirit of the age, which has raised me to the highest pinnacle of fame.

— William Harvey c. 1650s (attributed)
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The examination of the body after death is a most useful and necessary practice.

— William Harvey c. 1650s
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I am not afraid to confess that I am a man who loves to dissect.

— William Harvey c. 1650s (attributed)
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The circulation of the blood is the greatest discovery ever made in medicine.

— William Harvey c. 1628 (implied)
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Errors are not to be removed by violence, but by reason.

— William Harvey c. 1650s (attributed)
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It is a thing worthy of observation how much more easily and quickly the mind is deceived than the eye.

— William Harvey c. 1650s (attributed)
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The knowledge of man is the knowledge of God.

— William Harvey Uncertain (attributed)
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Nature is the best teacher.

— William Harvey Uncertain (attributed)
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The physician must be a lover of wisdom.

— William Harvey Uncertain (attributed)
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The greatest pleasure is to be found in the contemplation of truth.

— William Harvey Uncertain (attributed)
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The body is the instrument of the soul.

— William Harvey Uncertain (attributed)
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To search for truth is to search for God.

— William Harvey Uncertain (attributed)
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The greatest art is to conceal art.

— William Harvey Uncertain (attributed)
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