27 Quotes by William Harvey

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.