Anatomy Quotes

• 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

  Book, Science, Fabric

  On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals (1628) (translation by Robert Willis)

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• I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.

  Marilu Henner

  Doctors, Pigs, Class

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• No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

  No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. The Physiology of Marriage Meditation V, Aphorism 28

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• At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing where we all keep our distance and pretend not to care about each other, it's usually a load of bull. So we pick and choose who we want to remain close to, and once we've chosen those people, we tend to stick close by. No matter how much we hurt them. The people that are still with you at the end of the day, those are the ones worth keeping. And sure, sometimes close can be too close. But sometimes, that invasion of personal space, it can be exactly what you need.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Hurt, Distance, Space

  "Grey's Anatomy". TV Series, m.imdb.com.

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• The first cut is the deepest.

  Rod Stewart

  Cutting, Firsts, Grey's Anatomy

  Song: The First Cut Is The Deepest, Album: A Night on the Town

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• The most important history is the history we make today.

  Henry Ford

  Important, Today, Grey's Anatomy

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• The early bird catches the worm.

  William Camden

  Wisdom, Italian, Bird

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• Names are not always what they seem.

  Mark Twain

  Names, Labyrinth, Criminal Mind

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.317, Courier Corporation

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• It can be scary to find out you've been wrong about something but we can't be afraid to change our minds, to accept that things are different, that they'll never be the same, for better or for worse. We have to be willing to give up what we used to believe. The more we're willing to accept what is and not what we thought, we'll find ourselves exactly where we belong.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Giving Up, Believe, Scary

  "Fictional character: Dr. Meredith Grey". 'Grey's Anatomy '('Second Opinion'), November 15, 2012.

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• The more things change, the more they stay different.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Change, Different, Grey

  Melissa de la Cruz (2009). “Girl Stays in the Picture”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• In such sad circumstances I but see myself exalted by my own enemies, for in order to defeat some small works of mine they try to make the whole rational medicine and anatomy fall, as if I were myself these noble disciplines.

  Marcello Malpighi

  Fall, Hard Work, Sadness

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• Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is usually commenced from, and often confined to, his structure, that a knowledge of the archetype has been so long hidden from anatomists.

  Charles Lyell

  Knowledge, Science, Men

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• Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi in Christendome) that almost a new Nature has been revealed to us? that more errours of the School have been detected, more useful Experiments in Philosophy have been made, more Noble Secrets in Opticks, Medicine, Anatomy, Astronomy, discover'd, than in all those credulous and doting Ages from Aristotle to us? So true it is that nothing spreads more fast than Science, when rightly and generally cultivated.

  John Dryden

  Philosophy, School, Science

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.4055, Delphi Classics

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• Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Selfish, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.102, 谷月社

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• This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better, and as for anatomy, my butcher can dissect a joint full as well; no, young man, all that is stuff; you must go to the bedside, it is there alone you can learn disease!
  Comment to Hans Sloane on Robert Boyle's letter of introduction describing Sloane as a 'ripe scholar, a good botanist, a skilful anatomist'.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Science, Men, Garden

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• ... our "Physick" and "Anatomy" have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time and space, have grappled, not unsuccessfully, with such complex problems, that the eyes of Vesalius and of Harvey might be dazzled by the sight of the tree that has grown out of their grain of mustard seed.

  Thomas Huxley

  Eye, Science, Sight

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1910). “Huxley's Autobiography and Selected Essays from Lay Sermons”

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• Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of a country to understand its history, so also it is not enough to know the anatomy of organs to understand their functions.

  Claude Bernard

  Country, Anatomy And Physiology, Typography

  Claude Bernard (1974). “Lectures on the phenomena of life common to animals and plants”, Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd

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• Herewith I offer you the Omnipotent Finger of God in the anatomy of a louse: wherein you will find miracles heaped on miracles and will see the wisdom of God clearly manifested in a minute point.

  Jan Swammerdam

  Wisdom, Science, Miracle

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• Vergleichende Anatomie der Engel.
  On the comparative anatomy of angels.

  Gustav Fechner

  Angel, Engels

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• I have made many mistakes myself; in learning the anatomy of the eye I dare say, I have spoiled a hatfull; the best surgeon, like the best general, is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

  Astley Cooper

  Mistake, Eye, Science

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• You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it, it is by nature self-erasing, you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Sex, Memories, Heart

  "Billy Bathgate". Book by E. L. Doctorow, 1989.

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• Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt; while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take the trouble to attend it are in no doubt at all.

  Giovanni Battista Morgagni

  Learning, Science, Doubt

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• The whole aim of comparative anatomy is to discover what structures are homologous.

  Libbie Hyman

  Structure, Aim, Whole

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• Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.

  Jean Fernel

  Anatomy And Physiology, Theatre, Events

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• The more things change, the more they stay the same.

  Alphonse Karr

  Change, Birthday, More The Merrier

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