Marie Francois Xavier Bichat Quotes

• Life consists in the sum of the functions, by which death is resisted.

  Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

  Life, Death, Science

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• Open up a few corpses: you will dissipate at once the darkness that observation alone could not dissipate.

  Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

  Science, Darkness, Observation

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• Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice of the human mind. What did I say! It is not a Science for a methodical mind. It is a shapeless assemblage of inaccurate ideas, of observations often puerile, of deceptive remedies, and of formulae as fantastically conceived as they are tediously arranged.

  Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

  Science, Ideas, Medicine

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