William Harvey Quotes

#1. Good God! how should the mitral valves prevent the regurgitation of air and not of blood?

William Harvey

#2. I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.

William Harvey

#3. For the concept of a circuit of the blood does not destroy, but rather advances traditional medicine.

William Harvey

#4. Memory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain where it has never been.

William Harvey

#5. Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.

William Harvey

#6. Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

William Harvey

#7. There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.

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#8. I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

William Harvey

#9. I appeal to your own eyes as my witness and judge.

William Harvey

#10. Nature is a volume of which God is the author.

William Harvey

#11. There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

William Harvey

#12. 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

#13. It is, however, an argument of no weight to say that natural bodies are first generated or compounded out of those things into which they are at the last broken down or dissolved.

William Harvey

#14. As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.

William Harvey

#15. All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.

William Harvey

#16. I have often wondered and even laughed at those who fancied that everything had been so consummately and absolutely investigated by an Aristotle or a Galen or some other mighty name, that nothing could by any possibility be added to their knowledge.

William Harvey

#17. Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.

William Harvey

#18. The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source of all action.

William Harvey

#19. Moderate labor of the body conduces to the preservation of health, and cares many initial diseases.

William Harvey