Quotes About William Harvey

#1. He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches.

John Aubrey

#2. He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.

John Aubrey

#3. I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he fell mightily in his Practize, and that 'twas beleeved by the vulgar that he was crack-brained.

John Aubrey

#4. You have to go after the life, otherwise the one who is coming after you will crush and pass you ...

Alen Sargsyan

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

William Harvey

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

William Harvey

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

William Harvey

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

William Harvey

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Stories, we all have stories. Nature does not tell stories, we do. We find ourselves in them, make ourselves in them, choose ourselves in them. If we are the stories we tell ourselves, we had better choose them well.

James Orbinski

#13. 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

#14. People say to me, 'Do you know who you look like?' And I say, 'I'm really tired of looking like that guy.'

Bill Cosby

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

William Harvey

#16. I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#17. 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

#18. More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It must pass ...

Beth Revis

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

William Harvey

#20. 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

#21. If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.

Chester A. Arthur

#22. A Greek will never say anything he hasn't already said a thousand times. Her husband Charles reprimanded me for not knowing the word. To Charles it was a mark of one's respect for other cultures to know the local terms of abuse and the words for sex acts and natural wastes.

Don DeLillo

#23. But when the world and all that's behind it and in it seem black, I tell myself that self-respect and self-mastery are not everything, that faith and belief in the power of prayer are not so wonderful as what we call the ordinary love of two apparently very ordinary people.

William Fryer Harvey

#24. And yet we check and chide
The airy angels as they float about us,
With rules of so-called wisdom, till they grow
The same tame slaves to custom and the world.

Frances Sargent Osgood

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

William Harvey

#26. 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

#27. Your value in life is determined by the problems you solve through your gift.

Myles Munroe

#28. All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy. That's what we should be teaching our children, not fairy tales about angels and seeing grandma in Heaven.

Carolyn Porco

#29. I look at pastries and cakes, tarts and pies. My body craves sugar, always craves sugar. Years of alcohalism and the high level of sugar in alcohal created the craving, which I feed with candy and soda.

James Frey

#30. It was the dawn of a new day that Birdie prized. It was God's little reminder that no matter how dark the night, the sun always rises.

Lisa Unger

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

William Harvey

#32. To realize the body's potential for flow is relatively easy. It does not require special talents or great expenditures of money. Everyone can greatly improve the quality of life by exploring one or more previously ignored dimensions of physical abilities. Of

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#33. I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of the plants themselves.
[Letter to W.H. Harvey]

Joseph Dalton Hooker

#34. Snatch is an ugly word," I say. "Like it's going to rip my dick off. Yeah - that is an ugly motherfucking word. But pussy? It just sounds soft. Cuddly. It sounds wonderful. Pussy. I love that word.

Pella Grace

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

William Harvey

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

William Harvey

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

William Harvey

#38. 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.

William Harvey